Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam write by Travis Zadeh. This book was released on 2017-02-28. Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam
Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam write by Travis E. Zadeh. This book was released on 2010. Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam
Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam write by Travis Zadeh. This book was released on 2017-02-28. Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Medieval Islamic Maps
Medieval Islamic Maps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Islamic Maps write by Karen C. Pinto. This book was released on 2016-11. Medieval Islamic Maps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition of medieval Islamic maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS). Created from the mid-tenth through the nineteenth century, these maps offered Islamic rulers, scholars, and armchair explorers a view of the physical and human geography of the Arabian peninsula, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, Spain and North Africa, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Iranian provinces, present-day Pakistan, and Transoxiana. Historian Karen C. Pinto examines around 100 examples of these maps retrieved from archives across the world from three points of view: iconography, context, and patronage. By unraveling their many symbols, she guides us through new ways of viewing the Muslim cartographic imagination.
Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography
Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography write by Ralph W. Brauer. This book was released on 1995. Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contents: Section 1: The Geographical Concepts: Boundaries in Arabo-Islamic Cartography; and Boundaries in the Arabo-Islamic Geographic and Historical Texts; Section 2: Travelers' Experiences at Internal Boundaries, the Area Concept in Arabo-Islamic Geography, and the Relation of Zone-Boundaries to Basic Tenets of Arabo-Islamic Culture; Boundaries in the Writings of Travelers in the Islamic Empire; The Concept of Area in Muslim Geographic Thought; and Boundary Characteristics as a Consequence of Embedded Attidues of the Culture: Section 3: Genesis of Boundary Zones Involving non-Arab Muslim States; Section 4: Summary and Conclusions. Illustrations. A reprint of the American Philosophical Society Transactions 85-6 (1985)
