The authorship of the geographic composition in SM 228 (Houghton Library)
An analysis of an Arabic geographic MS containing a general description of the inhabited world. The current identification of the author with al-Fazārī (eighth century A. D.) is disproven by quotations from the later works of al-Masʿ ūdī. A new identification is offered, with the Andalusian author A...
| Subtitles: | Brief Communications |
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| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
American Oriental Society
[Jul. - Sep., 1981]
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| In: |
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Year: 1981, Volume: 101, Issue: 3, Pages: 373-375 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Geography
/ Handwriting
/ Terminology
/ North Africa
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| RelBib Classification: | TG High Middle Ages |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | An analysis of an Arabic geographic MS containing a general description of the inhabited world. The current identification of the author with al-Fazārī (eighth century A. D.) is disproven by quotations from the later works of al-Masʿ ūdī. A new identification is offered, with the Andalusian author Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Zuhrī (c. 1150). This is supported by the peculiar spelling of the title (Jaʿ rāfīya), the rare pattern of division of the world and the accompanying terminology for sections (juz ʾ) and subsections (ṣaqʿ), and by a comparison with the available published version. The paleography suggests the seventeenth century and North Africa as the time and place of origin of the Harvard copy. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2289 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/602602 |