Mapping frontiers across medieval Islam : geography, translation, and the 'Abbāsid Empire / / Travis Zadeh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816587703321
• Autore: Zadeh Travis E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2011
• ISBN: 0-7556-9285-3; 1-78672-131-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Library of Middle East history ; ; 27
• Disciplina: NB956.012
• Soggetti: Abbasids; General & world history; Islamic Empire Historical geography; Islamic Empire Historiography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-285) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.