Author: Danilenko, Nadja.
Title: Picturing the Islamicate world. The story of al-Istakhri's Book of routes and realms.
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, [2021]. XIII,301 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East, Vol. 146). [ISBN: 978-90-04-43985-6]. - New copy.In this book, 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-I??akhri’s work, revealing who took an interest in it and why. - Text in English. - Publisher's retail price: € 132,41

Keywords: Cartography Asia Worldmaps Ethnography Cartografie Azië Wereldkaarten Etnografie