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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-Iṣṭakhrī’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-Iṣṭakhrī chose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iṣṭakhrī’s 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-Iṣṭakhrī’s work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.

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Par une analyse essentiellement codicologique des manuscrits, N. D. propose un nouvel eclairage sur la posterite d'une oeuvre geographique qui met l'accent sur la continuite culturelle d'un monde islamique fragmente, audela des bouleversements politiques et dynastique...Nadja Danilenko nous propose ainsi une plongee passionnante dans l'histoire des manuscrits islamiques en arabe, persan et turc du Livre des Routes et des Royaumes. L'attention portee au texte et aux cartes, mais aussi a la materialite desmanuscrits (reliure, marques de possession, sceaux, notes marginales), en fait un bel exemple d'etude codicologique menee sur plus de mille ans d'histoire. - Emmanuelle Vagnon-Chureau CNRS - LaMOP (UMR 8589, Universite de Paris I), in: Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques No 36 (2022)

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Nadja Danilenko, PhD (2018), Freie Universität Berlin, is a Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts. Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures’ at Universität Hamburg.

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