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Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam
Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire
Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam
Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire
Description
The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran, has been either dismissed as superstition or treated as historical fact. By exploring the intellectual and literary history surrounding the production and early reception of this adventure, Travis Zadeh traces the conceptualization of frontiers within early 'Abbasid society and re-evaluates the modern treatment of marvels and monsters inhabiting medieval Islamic descriptions of the world. Examining the roles of translation, descriptive geography, and salvation history in the projection of early 'Abbasid imperial power, this book is essential for all those interested in Islamic studies, the 'Abbasid dynasty and its politics, geography, religion, Arabic and Persian literature and European Orientalism.
Table of Contents
Section One: Geography, Translation, and the Apocalypse
Chapter One: Routes and Kingdoms
Chapter Two: Models of Translation
Chapter Three: al-Wathiq and the Translators
Section Two: Marvelous Alterity
Chapter Four: A Geography of Neighbours
Chapter Five: Pictura ut poesis
Section Three: Beyond the Barrier
Chapter Six: To Live to Tell
Chapter Seven: Past the Walls of the Orient
Chapter Eight: Translating along the Margins
Postscript: Royal Graffiti
Index
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 18 Oct 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 336 |
| ISBN | 9789356400993 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 12pp bw plates |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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