Persianate
Adjective
Meaning
Persianate (comparative more Persianate, superlative most Persianate)
Based on, or strongly influenced by, the Persian language or culture.
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Examples
He lived most of his life under the Persianate Grousset, Rene, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia, (Rutgers University Press, 2002), 157; "…the Seljuk court at Konya adopted Persian as its official language."
The Rustic Beloved: Ecology of Hindi in a Persianate World, The Annual of Urdu Studies, vol 15, issue 5, pp. 1–30 * The Comparative study of Urdu and Khowar.
What has the typical relationship among kings, ulema and mystics been, for example, in regions such as Central Asia, Anatolia, Persia and Mughal India that fall in a shared Persianate cultural and intellectual zone?
Unlike other indigenous Persianate faiths, the Yarsan explicitly reject class, caste and rank, which sets them apart from the Yazidis and Zoroastrians. citation The Ahl-i Haqq consider the Bektashi and Alevi as kindred communities.
These regions share a long heritage of Turco-Iranian or Persianate civilization.