In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iá¹£á¹akhrī’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-Iá¹£á¹akhrÄ« chose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iá¹£á¹akhrī’s strategy seems to have...
In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iá¹£á...
