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Picturing the Islamicate World: The Story of Al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East #146) (Hardcover)

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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.

Product Details
ISBN: 9789004439856
ISBN-10: 9004439854
Publisher: Brill
Publication Date: October 29th, 2020
Pages: 316
Language: Arabic
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East