@article{2021:drki:caught_bet,
title = {Caught between Two Empires: The Teaching of Persian in Bosnia at the Time of Transition from Ottoman to Austro-Hungarian Rule},
year = {2021},
note = {This article considers the presence of Persian within the educational
system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the westernmost frontier of the
‘Persianate world’, between the 1860s and the first decade of
1900. Based on a survey of primary sources, such as the first journals
introduced in Bosnia by the Ottoman administration, I show that the
introduction of new educational establishments in the 1860s and 1870s
brought a mass expansion of the teaching of Persian in Bosnia. Even
after the Austro-Hungarian occupation of 1878, Persian continued to be
taught in old and some newly founded schools. However, the following
decades saw a lively debate on the teaching of Persian, highlighting
the redundancy of this language in a new social and cultural context.
As a result, Persian was completely removed from Bosnian schools at
the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to presenting new
knowledge about the spread of Persian in the Balkans, and the
instruction of foreign languages in the Ottoman Empire, I intend to
demonstrate here that a similar process of withdrawing and removing
Persian from the educational system was occurring in Habsburg Bosnia
simultaneously with the decline of Persian in British India.},
journal = {DIYÂR},
pages = {186--207},
author = {Drkić, Munir},
volume = {2},
number = {2}
}