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Picturing the Islamicate World
The Story of al-Iá¹£á¹akhrÄ«âs Book of Routes and Realms
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In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iá¹£á¹akhrÄ«âs 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£á¹akhrÄ«âs strategy seems to have paid off.
By investigating the Persian and Ottoman translations and all extant manuscripts, Nadja Danilenko unravels the manuscript tradition of al-Iá¹£á¹akhrÄ«âs work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.
Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iá¹£á¹akhrÄ«âs strategy seems to have paid off.
By investigating the Persian and Ottoman translations and all extant manuscripts, Nadja Danilenko unravels the manuscript tradition of al-Iá¹£á¹akhrÄ«âs work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.
Nadja Danilenko, PhD (2018), Freie Universität Berlin, is a Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence âUnderstanding Written Artefacts. Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Culturesâ at Universität Hamburg.
"Par une analyse essentiellement codicologique des manuscrits, N. D. propose un nouvel éclairage sur la postérité dâune Åuvre géographique qui met lâaccent sur la continuité culturelle dâun monde islamique fragmenté, audelà des bouleversements politiques et dynastique...Nadja Danilenko nous propose ainsi une plongée passionnante dans lâhistoire des manuscrits islamiques en arabe, persan et turc du Livre des Routes et des Royaumes. Lâattention portée au texte et aux cartes, mais aussi à la matérialité desmanuscrits (reliure, marques de possession, sceaux, notes marginales), en fait un bel exemple dâétude codicologique menée sur plus de mille ans dâhistoire."
- Emmanuelle Vagnon-Chureau CNRS - LaMOP (UMR 8589, Université de Paris I), in: Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques No 36 (2022)
- Emmanuelle Vagnon-Chureau CNRS - LaMOP (UMR 8589, Université de Paris I), in: Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques No 36 (2022)
All interested in Islamic Studies/Codicology, Historical Cartography, Art History and Book History/History of Knowledge.