Mapping frontiers across Medieval Islam : geography, translation and the ʿAbbāsid Empire

Mapping frontiers across Medieval Islam geography, translation and the ʿAbbāsid Empire

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 surroundin...

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1. Verfasser: Zadeh, Travis (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London u.a. Tauris 2011
Schriftenreihe:Library of Middle East history 27
Schlagworte:
Abbasids > Islamic Empire > Historiography > Historical geography > Abbasidenreich > Geschichtsschreibung > Islam > Historische Geografie
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:XII, 315, [12] S.
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ISBN:184885451X
1-84885-451-X
9781848854512
978-1-84885-451-2