Author
Calzolaio, Francesco
Publication Place
Cambridge -
Cambridge University Press
Subject
Geography, Imitation, Islam, Legends, Rites and ceremonies, Travel writing
Type
Book
Language
eng,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 0021-0862, EISSN: 1475-4819, DOI: 10.1017/irn.2022.22
Record ID
cdi_proquest_journals_2790086045
Library Location
Social Science Database (Proquest), Cambridge Journals: 2024 Full Collection, ProQuest Central
Notes
The Safīna-yi Sulaymānī (The Ship of Sulaymān), one of the foremost Persian travelogues from the Safavid period, includes a geographic description of East and Southeast Asia centered on the Indian Ocean. While the Safīna is well-known to scholars, secondary literature on this part of the book is scant and often characterizes it as incoherent and devoid of value. This paper challenges this interpretation through providing a new reading of this text. By casting it in a comparative framework with earlier books of wonders, this paper argues that the geographic section of the Safīna articulates an original view of the Indian Ocean resulting from the encounter between the traveler's observations and experiences and the Islamic tradition of wonders, the ʿajāʾib . As such, it encapsulates one of the central intellectual developments in early modern knowledge production, i.e., the tension between independent inquiry ( taḥqīq ) and imitation of earlier authorities ( taqlīd ).
Telif Hakkı
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Iranian Studies. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.
Görüntüle
Iranian studies, 2022-10, Vol.55 (4), p.879-897
