Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire by Travis Zadeh
Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire

Travis Zadeh

Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire

Library of Middle East History

Travis Zadeh

328 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction historical history medium-paced
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The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran, has been either dismissed as superstition or treated as historical fact. By explo...

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