| Picturing the Islamicate World: The Story of Al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms Contributor(s): Danilenko, Nadja (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004439854 ISBN-13: 9789004439856 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $139.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Arabic Published: October 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see Also Travel - Maps & Road Atlases) - Travel | Maps & Road Atlases (see Also Reference - Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps) |
| Physical Information: 316 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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-Iṣṭakhrī chose 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. |