03123nam 22005055 450 991081500570332120230809223236.01-4798-6205-310.18574/9781479862054(CKB)3710000001108783(MiAaPQ)EBC4714307(DE-B1597)547613(DE-B1597)9781479862054(OCoLC)1151796602(EXLCZ)99371000000110878320200608h20172017 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAccounts of China and India /Abu Zayd al-SirafiNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (109 pages) illustrations, mapsLibrary of Arabic Literature ;551-4798-3059-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Letter from the General Editor --About this Paperback --Contents --Foreword --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Notes to the Introduction --Map --Accounts of China and India: The First Book --Accounts of China and India: The Second Book --Notes --Glossary of Names and Terms --Bibliography --Index --About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute --About the Translator --The Library of Arabic LiteratureThe ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse territory, from the Somali headlands of Africa to the far eastern shores of China and Korea. Traveling eastward, we discover a vivid human landscape—from Chinese society to Hindu religious practices—as well as a colorful range of natural wilderness—from flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a kaleidoscope of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information. Here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men—a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella.Library of Arabic literature.IndiaDescription and travelEarly works to 1800ChinaDescription and travelEarly works to 1800IndiaDescription and travelEarly works to 1800IndiaDescription and travel915.10418al-Sirafi Abu Zaydauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1647441Benite Zvi Ben-Dor1647442Mackintosh-Smith Tim1647443DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910815005703321Accounts of China and India3994976UNINA