Picturing the Islamicate world :: the story of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of routes and realms /

"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 t...

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1. Verfasser: Danilenko, Nadja (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 146.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004440098
9004440097
ISSN:0169-9423 ;

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