The collection of essays in this volume examines forms of business documentation in the late Persianate world and the Indian Ocean, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Looking upon business in its broadest sense, the themes range from property disputes within families to inter-polity and inter-imperial deals, all of which is captured within the notion of the bazaar. Presenting documents and documentary forms written in Persian, but also the associated languages of Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi and Rajasthani, the articles collectively enrich the idea of the Persianate, delineating its specific dispensations within regional contexts, and also its boundaries and limitations. This is also a contribution to the study of Persographia, in this case Persianate rather than just Persian writing. The articles study specific language combinations, lexical elements and usages that came to be deployed in different areas and the legal cultures they provide evidence for.

本卷中的论文集考察了 17 世纪至 20 世纪晚期波斯世界和印度洋的商业文件形式。从最广泛的意义上看商业，主题范围从家庭内部的财产纠纷到政体间和帝国间的交易，所有这些都包含在集市的概念中。展示用波斯语以及相关的阿拉伯语、孟加拉语、古吉拉特语、印地语、马拉地语和拉贾斯坦语书写的文件和纪录片形式，这些文章共同丰富了波斯语的概念，描述了它在区域背景下的具体分配，以及它的边界和限制。这也是对 Persographia 研究的贡献，在这种情况下，Persianate 而不仅仅是波斯文字。