Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad Rabīʿs Safīna-yi Sulaymānī and Southeast and East Asian Geography

Name: Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad Rabīʿs Safīna-yi Sulaymānī and Southeast and East Asian Geography
Author: Calzolaio, Francesco

İsim	Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad Rabīʿs Safīna-yi Sulaymānī and Southeast and East Asian Geography
Yazar	Calzolaio, Francesco
Basım Yeri	Cambridge - Cambridge University Press
Konu	Geography, Imitation, Islam, Legends, Rites and ceremonies, Travel writing
Tür	Kitap
Dil	eng,fas
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Danimarka Kraliyet Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	ISSN: 0021-0862, EISSN: 1475-4819, DOI: 10.1017/irn.2022.22
Kayıt Numarası	cdi_proquest_journals_2790086045
Lokasyon	Social Science Database (Proquest), Cambridge Journals: 2024 Full Collection, ProQuest Central
Notlar	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

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Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad Rabīʿs Safīna-yi Sulaymānī and Southeast and East Asian Geography

Yazar Calzolaio, Francesco

Basım Yeri Cambridge - Cambridge University Press

Konu Geography, Imitation, Islam, Legends, Rites and ceremonies, Travel writing

Tür Kitap

Dil eng,fas

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Danimarka Kraliyet Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası ISSN: 0021-0862, EISSN: 1475-4819, DOI: 10.1017/irn.2022.22

Kayıt Numarası cdi_proquest_journals_2790086045

Lokasyon Social Science Database (Proquest), Cambridge Journals: 2024 Full Collection, ProQuest Central

Notlar 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