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The Mughal Kitabkhana and the Material Culture of Persianate Knowledge
莫卧儿‘书坊’与波斯语知识的物质文化
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The Mughal kitabkhana—more than a royal library—functioned as a hybrid scriptorium, translation bureau, and intellectual workshop across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India.莫卧儿皇家书坊——远不止一座皇家图书馆——在16至17世纪的印度，兼具抄写工坊、翻译机构与学术作坊多重功能。
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Scribes, painters, calligraphers, and papermakers collaborated under imperial patronage, producing manuscripts that fused Timurid aesthetics with Rajput and Deccani sensibilities.在帝国资助下，抄写员、画家、书法家与造纸匠通力合作，所制手稿融合了帖木儿风格与拉杰普特及德干地区的审美意趣。
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Persian remained the lingua franca of administration and scholarship, yet Sanskrit, Arabic, and regional vernaculars entered translations with deliberate lexical innovation.波斯语仍是行政与学术通用语，但梵语、阿拉伯语及地方方言亦被有意识地引入译作，并伴以创新性词汇选择。
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Illustrated histories like the Akbarnama reframed sovereignty not through divine right but through visual chronology and ethical exemplarity.《阿克巴本纪》等配图史籍，不靠神授君权，而借视觉编年与道德典范重构王权。
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Binding techniques, pigment sources, and marginal annotations reveal networks connecting Lahore, Agra, and Isfahan far more densely than diplomatic correspondence suggests.装帧工艺、颜料来源与页边批注，揭示出拉合尔、阿格拉与伊斯法罕之间远比外交文书所显示更紧密的知识网络。
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Female patrons—including Empress Nur Jahan—commissioned scientific treatises and poetic anthologies previously assumed male-dominated.女性赞助者——包括努尔·贾汉皇后——委托编纂科学论著与诗集，打破了此类著作历来由男性主导的成见。
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The kitabkhana’s decline post-1707 reflected not cultural decay but the fragmentation of centralized patronage amid regional state formation.1707年后书坊衰落，并非文化衰退所致，而是中央资助体系瓦解、地方政权兴起所引发的必然结果。
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Its manuscripts circulated widely among Maratha, Sikh, and British collectors, each recontextualizing them according to new regimes of value and interpretation.其手稿广泛流散于马拉塔、锡克与英国收藏家之手，各方均依自身价值体系与阐释框架对其重新定位。
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Modern digitization projects often isolate folios from their original codicological context, erasing evidence of collaborative authorship and iterative revision.当代数字化项目常将单页从原始装帧语境中剥离，抹去了协作创作与反复修订的实证痕迹。
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These objects challenge the notion of ‘Islamic science’ as monolithic, highlighting instead pluralistic knowledge economies rooted in translation and adaptation.这些实物挑战‘伊斯兰科学’单一化观念，凸显植根于翻译与调适的多元知识经济。
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They testify to a world where intellectual authority resided as much in craftsmanship and contextual fluency as in textual orthodoxy.它们见证了一个世界：知识权威不仅来自文本正统，更同样寓于技艺实践与情境理解之中。
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To study the kitabkhana is to recognize knowledge as always embodied, situated, and politically entangled.研究书坊，即是承认知识始终具身化、情境化且深嵌政治关系。