"A Glorious Past and an Outstanding Present: Writing a Collection of Biographies in Late Persianate Central Asia"
Résumé
Contents of the article: I. Collected Biographies of Poets in Persian by Late Central Asian Authors II. The Author's Workshop II.1. Conceiving the project: motivation II.2. Structuring the book II.3. Gathering the biographical material: fieldwork and library research (a) Use of oral sources and fieldwork; (b) Written sources and library research. III. Some Remarks on Persianate Learning and the Profane Reading Curriculum; Appendix: Texts quoted as authoritative sources in tadhkeras of the later period (in the order given in the text).