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Wonders and Rarities BY Travis Zadeh (HARDCOVER 2023) - NEW
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Item specifics
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- Intl ISBN
- 9780674293793
- Product-Type
- HARDCOVER EDITION
- ISBN
- 9780674258457
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674258452
ISBN-13
9780674258457
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21057251717
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wonders and Rarities : the Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Earth Sciences / Geography, Islam / History, World, Middle East / General
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
31.3 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-004884
Reviews
A remarkable account of how a single text captivated readers for centuries, across the boundaries of language, religion, culture, and politics. Travis Zadeh's engrossing study uncovers, with great erudition, the genesis and many afterlives of an extraordinary book, illuminating its continued power to inspire and amaze readers in our present day., Wonders and Rarities has been studied by art historians in particular, but Travis Zadeh sets it in the context of wider Islamic thought...Indeed, he faces the mammoth task of mastering the same range of disciplines as Qazwini himself, from alchemy to botany, philosophy, theology and zoology. These feats are themselves worthy of wonder., A wide-ranging and enchanting study...Zadeh has traced the history of al-Qazwini's books in the centuries after their author's death, their abbreviations, expansions, imitations and glorious illustrations., A study of the wondrous, marvelous, and strange in the Islamicate context...This book contributes to our understanding of an intellectually vibrant world full of wondrous anecdotes, magic, science, and poetry., In a book where he matches his subject's encyclopedic ambition with lightly worn erudition, Zadeh's account provides contemporary readers with an insight into a pre-modern, pre-Enlightenment world where natural phenomena coexisted with the angels, jinns and demons that were believed to frame reality under an all-encompassing deity...Beautifully written and engaging., As Zadeh concludes, reformers and modernists have closed the rich and varied archive revealed in Wonders and Rarities...In this beautifully written and engaging text, Zadeh takes his readers back to the world of surprise and enchantment that preceded this closure., The wonders and curiosities of the Islamic imagination await discovery by a new generation of readers in this superb and very enjoyable book by Travis Zadeh.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
910.9174927
Synopsis
Travis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwini, whose Wonders and Rarities was for centuries one of the most influential natural histories in the world. Inviting us to embrace anew Qazwini's rationalized study of nature and magic, Zadeh dramatically revises the place of wonder in the history of Islamic thought., "The wonders and curiosities of the Islamic imagination await discovery by a new generation of readers in this superb and very enjoyable book by Travis Zadeh." -Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The astonishing biography of one of the world's most influential books. During the thirteenth century, the Persian naturalist and judge Zakariyya' Qazw#299n#299 authored what became one of the most influential works of natural history in the world: Wonders and Rarities . Exploring the dazzling movements of the stars above, the strange minutiae of the minerals beneath the earth, and everything in between, Qazw#299n#299 offered a captivating account of the cosmos. With fine paintings and leading science, Wonders and Rarities inspired generations as it traveled through madrasas and courts, unveiling the magical powers of nature. Yet after circulating for centuries, first in Arabic and Persian, then in Turkish and Urdu, Qazw#299n#299's compendium eventually came to stand as a strange, if beautiful, emblem of medieval ignorance. Restoring Qazw#299n#299 to his place as a herald of the rare and astonishing, Travis Zadeh dramatically revises the place of wonder in the history of Islamic philosophy, science, and literature. From the Mongol conquests to the rise of European imperialism and Islamic reform, Zadeh shows, wonder provided an enduring way to conceive of the world-at once constituting an affective reaction, an aesthetic stance, a performance of piety, and a cognitive state. Yet through the course of colonial modernity, Qazw#299n#299's universe of marvels helped advance the notion that Muslims lived in a timeless world of superstition and enchantment, unaware of the western hemisphere or the earth's rotation around the sun. Recovering Qazw#299n#299's ideas and his reception, Zadeh invites us into a forgotten world of thought, where wonder mastered the senses through the power of reason and the pleasure of contemplation., "As Zadeh concludes, reformers and modernists have closed the rich and varied archive revealed in Wonders and Rarities ...In this beautifully written and engaging text, Zadeh takes his readers back to the world of surprise and enchantment that preceded this closure."--Malise Ruthven, Financial Times "The wonders and curiosities of the Islamic imagination await discovery by a new generation of readers in this superb and very enjoyable book by Travis Zadeh."--Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The astonishing biography of one of the world's most influential books. During the thirteenth century, the Persian naturalist and judge Zakariyya Qazwini authored what became one of the most influential works of natural history in the world: Wonders and Rarities . Exploring the dazzling movements of the stars above, the strange minutiae of the minerals beneath the earth, and everything in between, Qazwini offered a captivating account of the cosmos. With fine paintings and leading science, Wonders and Rarities inspired generations as it traveled through madrasas and courts, unveiling the magical powers of nature. Yet after circulating for centuries, first in Arabic and Persian, then in Turkish and Urdu, Qazwini's compendium eventually came to stand as a strange, if beautiful, emblem of medieval ignorance. Restoring Qazwini to his place as a herald of the rare and astonishing, Travis Zadeh dramatically revises the place of wonder in the history of Islamic philosophy, science, and literature. From the Mongol conquests to the rise of European imperialism and Islamic reform, Zadeh shows, wonder provided an enduring way to conceive of the world--at once constituting an affective reaction, an aesthetic stance, a performance of piety, and a cognitive state. Yet through the course of colonial modernity, Qazwini's universe of marvels helped advance the notion that Muslims lived in a timeless world of superstition and enchantment, unaware of the western hemisphere or the earth's rotation around the sun. Recovering Qazwini's ideas and his reception, Zadeh invites us into a forgotten world of thought, where wonder mastered the senses through the power of reason and the pleasure of contemplation.
LC Classification Number
G93.Z34 2022
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