Picturing the Islamicate World

The Story of Al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43985-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 146, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Istakhri’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-Istakhri chose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals.
Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Istakhri’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-Istakhri’s work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Danilenko, Nadja

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geschichte der Geographie

Über Autor(innen)

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.