"This book brings together a collection of internationally renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines - including archaeology, history, literature, linguistics, art history - to examine Iran's political and commercial relations with the Indian Ocean world in history, Persian-speaking communities in the Indian Ocean world, Persian(ate) elements in Indian Ocean languages and literatures, Persian texts dealing with the Indian Ocean, and connections in material culture"--
The present volume is based on a conference held in 2022 at the University of St Andrews, at the conclusion of the British Institute of Persian Studies Medieval Research Programme Persianisation and Persian Cosmpolises--Acknowledgements.