TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zadeh,Travis E.
TI  - Mapping frontiers across medieval Islam: geography, translation, and the 'Abbāsid Empire 
T2  - Library of Middle East history
SN  - 9781848854512
AV  - DS38.6 .Z32 2011
U1  - 909.09767 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Abbasids
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Historical geography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-285) and indexes
N2  - 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
ER  -