Serendipitous Translations, Gebunden
Serendipitous Translations
- A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean
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- Publisher:
- Nile Green
- Publisher:
- University of Texas Press, 01/2026
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781477332894
- Item number:
- 12227697
- Volume:
- 336 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 232 x 154 mm
- Thickness:
- 34 mm
- Release date:
- 6.1.2026
- Series:
- Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources on Sri Lanka's links with the Islamic world ever assembled in English.
Sri Lanka is an underappreciated focal point of global history. Known to Persian and Arab traders as Serendib, the island has long been a site of intensive cultural and material exchange, as well as a holy place-Islamic tradition holds that the biblical Adam arrived there after his expulsion from Eden. Assembling centuries of texts, this volume presents an array of sources from the Indian Ocean.
Serendipitous Translations gathers travelogues, literary works, commercial records, inscriptions, religious tracts, pilgrim manuals, and more-an unprecedented range of Muslim voices from Sri Lanka between the 1200s and 1990s. These works vividly document medieval pilgrimages, maritime mystics, diplomatic encounters, colonial-era commerce, and the bustling everyday affairs of a cosmopolitan Asian nexus. Expert translations bring Arabic, Malay, Turkish, Urdu, Dhivehi, Sinhala, Arabu-Tamil, and Tamil texts to readers of English for the first time. Editor Nile Green situates these texts in their Indian Ocean contexts by introducing the broad sweep of Sri Lanka's story. An invaluable collection, Serendipitous Translations is the most comprehensive anthology of primary sources ever assembled on Sri Lanka's thousand-year links to the Muslim world.
