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Publication- Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World

Zayde Antrim, Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic
World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)

Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to
land from the ninth through the eleventh centuries, the earliest period of
intensive written production in Arabic. In this first book, Zayde Antrim
develops a "discourse of place," a framework for approaching formal texts
devoted to the representation of territory across genres. The discourse of
place included such varied works as topographical histories, literary
anthologies, religious treatises, world geographies, poetry, travel
literature, and maps. By closely reading and analyzing these works, Antrim
argues that their authors imagined plots of land primarily as homes, cities,
and regions and associated them with a range of claims to religious and
political authority. She contends that these are evidence of the powerful
ways in which the geographical imagination was tapped to declare loyalty and
invoke belonging in the early Islamic world.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Discourse of Place
Part I: Home
1. Home as Homeland
Part II: City
2. Cities and Sacred History
3. The Image of the City
Part III: Region
4. Dividing the World
5. Routes and Realms
Conclusion: Looking Forward

Zayde Antrim
Associate Professor of History and International Studies Director,
International Studies Program Department of History, Trinity College 300
Summit St., Hartford, CT 06106 (office tel.) 860-297-2230

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Camille Rhoné (10 octobre 2012). Publication- Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World. Diwan. Consulté le 7 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/npn1


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