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Jamal J. Elias, "After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World" (Harvard UP, 2025)

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From Persian Authority to Ottoman Turkish Prestige

Jamal traces Arabic/Persian scholarly roles, the decline of Persian literacy, and Ottoman efforts to develop Ottoman Turkish as a high language.

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