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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ;
v. 146. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : color illustrations, color maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004440098 9004440097 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9423 ; |