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
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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
