Wonders and Rarities : The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zadeh, Travis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283. ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt.

Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad.

Natural history--History.

Natural history.

Curiosities and wonders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Travis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwīnī, whose Wonders and Rarities was for centuries one of the most influential natural histories in the world. Inviting us to embrace anew Qazwīnī's rationalized study of nature and magic, Zadeh dramatically revises the place of wonder in the history of Islamic thought.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Conventions

Introduction: Wonder’s End

I. A world within words

1 Stranger Lands

2 Measures of Authority

3 Astral Power

II. Wonders to behold

4 Cosmic Order

5 Terrestrial Designs

6 Alchemical Bodies

III. Distant shores

7 Long Divided

8 Across the Globe

9 On the Edge

Coda: Acts of Enchantment

Note on Sources and Method

Sigla and Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-28763-0

OCLC:

1343103767