Picturing the Islamicate World (eBook)

The Story of al-Istakhri's Book of Routes and Realms

Nadja Danilenko (Autor)

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2020
Brill (Verlag)
9789004440098 (ISBN)

Infos

In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Istakhri'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-Istakhri chose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Istakhri'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-Istakhri's work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Karten / Stadtpläne / Atlanten ► Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• ISBN-13: 9789004440098 / 9789004440098