Persianate society

A Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art or identity. The term is a neologism credited to the historian Marshall Hodgson, who used it in his 1974 work The Venture of Islam to describe cultural traditions carried in Persian or reflecting Persian inspiration. It covers ethnic Persians but also societies that were not predominantly Persian in ethnicity yet whose linguistic or cultural practices were shaped by Persianate culture. Examples from before the nineteenth century include the Seljuq, Timurid, Mughal and Ottoman dynasties. Persianate culture spread among the elite of the Muslim territories of west, central and south Asia, carried by poets, artists, architects, jurists and scholars, from Anatolia to India.