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On 24 May 1877, Muhammad Sharif 'Nangarhari' inscribed a *Gulistan* commentary in Hisarak, a village in Nangarhar province in Western Afghanistan (the Western-most pin on our map). Its population in 2002 was estimated to be just thirty thousand. The fact that a *Gulistan* commentary was copied there implies a few facts about this village in the nineteenth century: that there was at least one professionally-trained scribe (Muhammad Sharif) who could copy Persian books; that there was at least one other manuscript of the same commentary from which Sharif produced his copy; that there were copies of the *Gulistan*, for the teaching of which someone felt the need to have a copy of a commentary; that there was a patron who could pay for the production of the copy; that there was parchment and ink with which the copy could be produced. In other words, the existence of a single manuscript reveals an entire world of knowledge production and transmission in this small village of Hesarak. The fact that our map features a number of such small towns and villages suggests a remarkable reach of Persian literacy beyond courtly elites.

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| INTERACTIVE MAP: Zoomed in portion of map, displaying manuscripts and commentaries at border of modern-day India and Pakistan.
| SOURCE CODE: https://github.com/Princeton-CDH/startwords/tree/main/content/issues/5/mapping-persian-literacy/gulistan_map_detail.html
| INTERACTIVE MAP: Map showing border of modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan with
| pins indicating the location of manuscripts and commentaries.
| SOURCE CODE: https://github.com/Princeton-CDH/startwords/tree/main/content/issues/5/mapping-persian-literacy/gulistan_map.html
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