Picturing the Islamicate world : the story of al-Iṣṭakhrī's book of routes and realms
Nadja Danilenko
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | XIII, 301 sider
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| Opplysninger | "In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms (10th century C.E.), the world map and twenty regional maps complement the text to a reference book of the territories under Muslim rule. Rather than shaping the Islamicate world according to political or religious concerns, al-Iṣṭakhrīchose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iṣṭakhrī's strategy seems to have paid off. By investigating the Persian and Ottoman translations and all extant manuscripts, Nadja Danilenko unravels the manuscript tradition of al-Iṣṭakhrī's work, revealing who took an interest in it and why"--
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| Emner | al-Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad : Masālik wa-al-mamālik
Cartography - History. - Islamic countries Geografi Islamske land Kartografi |
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| ISBN | 9789004439856
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