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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-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.
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Egypt 2020
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
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Discovery Miles 20 470
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