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Picturing the Islamicate World. The Story of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms

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Danilenko, Nadja, Danilenko, Nadja – 2020

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.

Title
Picturing the Islamicate World
Author
Danilenko, Nadja, Danilenko, Nadja
Publisher
Brill
Location
Leiden
Date
2020
Type
Doctoral Dissertation