Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam

Travis Zadeh is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from Harvard University in Comparative Literature (2007), and has published articles on Islamic intellectual and cultural history in the Journal of Arabic Literature, the Journal of Qur'anic Studies, Middle Eastern Literatures, and the Journal of the American Oriental Society. He is also the author of the forthcoming book, The Vernacular Qur'an: Translation and the Rise of Persian Exegesis (Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies), which examines early debates over translating the Qur'an and the development of Persian exegetical literature

Introduction
Section One: Geography, Translation, and the Apocalypse
Chapter One: Routes and Kingdoms
Chapter Two: Models of Translation
Chapter Three: al-Wathiq and the Translators

Section Two: Marvelous Alterity
Chapter Four: A Geography of Neighbours
Chapter Five: Pictura ut poesis

Section Three: Beyond the Barrier
Chapter Six: To Live to Tell
Chapter Seven: Past the Walls of the Orient
Chapter Eight: Translating along the Margins

Postscript: Royal Graffiti

Index
Bibliography