| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : color illustrations, color maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Handbook of oriental studies/Handbuch der Orientalistik: section 1, The Near and Middle East,
0169-9423 ;
volume 146
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Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 146.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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-Iṛṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms -- 3. In Persian, Please! The Translations of al-Iṛṭakhrī'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. |
| Summary |
"In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iṛṭakhrī'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-Iṛṭakhrīchose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iṛṭakhrī'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-Iṛṭakhrī's work, revealing who took an interest in it and why"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Nadja Danilenko, PhD (2018), Freie Universität Berlin, is a Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures at Universität Hamburg. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Iṛṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -957 or 958. Masālik wa-al-mamālik.
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Cartography -- Islamic countries -- History.
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Cartography. |
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Islamic countries. |
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History. |
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Geography, Arab.
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Geography, Arab. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Story of al-Iṛṭakhrī's Book of routes and realms |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Danilenko, Nadja. Picturing the Islamicate world. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004439856 (DLC) 2020042179 (OCoLC)1198988034 |
| ISBN |
9789004440098 electronic book |
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9004440097 electronic book |
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9789004439856 hardback |
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