Mapping Frontiers across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation, and the 'Abbasid Empire

By:

Travis Zadeh

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Library of Middle East History ; 27Publication details: London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011Description: xii, 315 p., [12] p. of plates, ill., geneal. table, maps; 23 cmISBN:

9781784537395

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Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library Main Library - 0.01	G 798 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		G 798

Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-285) and indexes.

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.

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