TY  - BOOK
AU  - Danilenko,Nadja
TI  - Picturing the Islamicate world: the story of al-Iṣṭakhrī's book of routes and realms 
T2  - Handbook of oriental studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East,
SN  - 978-90-04-43985-6
U1  - 910.91761 23A
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Iṣṭakhrī, Abu Isac Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad
KW  - الأصطخري، أبو إسحق إبراهيم بن محمد
N2  - 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
ER  -