Mapping Frontiers across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire (Library of Middle East History) - Hardcover

Travis Zadeh

9781848854512: Mapping Frontiers across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire (Library of Middle East History)

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ISBN 10: 184885451X ISBN 13: 9781848854512

Publisher: I.B.Tauris, 2011

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Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam 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. This title explores the history surrounding the production and early reception of this adventure. Full description

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Review

'A worthy and often brilliant discussion of the themes of wonder, translation from one medium to another and other major concepts in medieval Islamic writing - both in Persian and in Arabic.' --Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History and Chair, Committee on Islamic Studies, Harvard University

About the Author

Travis Zadeh is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from Harvard University in Comparative Literature (2007), and has published articles on Islamic intellectual and cultural history in the Journal of Arabic Literature, the Journal of Qur'anic Studies, Middle Eastern Literatures, and the Journal of the American Oriental Society. He is also the author of the forthcoming book, The Vernacular Qur'an: Translation and the Rise of Persian Exegesis (Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies), which examines early debates over translating the Qur'an and the development of Persian exegetical literature.

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