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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 |
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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Maps in Manuscripts
- 1. What Is the World Like? Geographic Writing until the Tenth Century
- 2. Show, Don't Tell : The World through al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms
- 3. In Persian, Please! The Translations of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms
- 4. Something Old, Something New : Collecting and Commissioning the Book of Routes and Realms in Ottoman Libraries from the Fifteenth Century Onwards
- Conclusion : Making Sense of the Book of Routes and Realms.