Accounts of China and India / by Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī ; translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ; foreword by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite ; volume editor Philip F. Kennedy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: Library of Arabic literaturePublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2017]Description: xxxiii, 119 pages : map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781479830596
  • 1479830593
Uniform titles:
  • Silsilat al-tawārīkh. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Accounts of China and India.DDC classification:
  • 915.104 23
LOC classification:
  • DS409 .S5713 2017
Contents:
Accounts of China and India -- Accounts of China and India: The First Book -- The Sea of Harkand -- Maritime Commerce between the Arabs and the Chinese -- The Sea Route from Siraf to Khanfu -- On Tides, and Unusual Phenomena of the Seas -- The Chinese and Some of Their Customs -- Accounts of the Lands of India and China and of Their Rulers -- China, and the Customs of Its Inhabitants -- India, and Some of the Customs of Its People -- Chinese and Indian Customs Compared -- Accounts of China and India: The Second Book -- The Changed Situation in China, and the Cause of It -- Various Practices and Manufactures of the Chinese -- The Visit of Ibn Wahb al-Qurashi to the King of China -- How the Seas Are Connected One to Another -- The Kingdom of al-Mihraj -- The Land of al-Qamar and the Stupidity of Its King -- The Belief of the Eastern Kings in the Transmigration of Souls -- Accounts of China Continued -- Further Accounts of India -- Accounts of the Island of Sarandib and of the Region of al-Aghbab, Which Faces It -- General Accounts of India Continued -- The Land of the Zanj -- The Island of Socotra -- Seas and Lands Lying West of the Gulf of Oman -- Ambergris and Whales -- An Account of Pearls -- Further Accounts of Indian Customs -- Afterword to the Second Book.
Summary: "The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse territory, from the Somali headlands of Africa to the far eastern shores of China and Korea. Traveling eastward, we discover a vivid human landscape-from Chinese society to Hindu religious practices-as well as a colorful range of natural wilderness-from flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a kaleidoscope of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information.Here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men-a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella."--Publisher description.
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Translated from the Arabic.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse territory, from the Somali headlands of Africa to the far eastern shores of China and Korea. Traveling eastward, we discover a vivid human landscape-from Chinese society to Hindu religious practices-as well as a colorful range of natural wilderness-from flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a kaleidoscope of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information.Here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men-a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella."--Publisher description.

Accounts of China and India -- Accounts of China and India: The First Book -- The Sea of Harkand -- Maritime Commerce between the Arabs and the Chinese -- The Sea Route from Siraf to Khanfu -- On Tides, and Unusual Phenomena of the Seas -- The Chinese and Some of Their Customs -- Accounts of the Lands of India and China and of Their Rulers -- China, and the Customs of Its Inhabitants -- India, and Some of the Customs of Its People -- Chinese and Indian Customs Compared -- Accounts of China and India: The Second Book -- The Changed Situation in China, and the Cause of It -- Various Practices and Manufactures of the Chinese -- The Visit of Ibn Wahb al-Qurashi to the King of China -- How the Seas Are Connected One to Another -- The Kingdom of al-Mihraj -- The Land of al-Qamar and the Stupidity of Its King -- The Belief of the Eastern Kings in the Transmigration of Souls -- Accounts of China Continued -- Further Accounts of India -- Accounts of the Island of Sarandib and of the Region of al-Aghbab, Which Faces It -- General Accounts of India Continued -- The Land of the Zanj -- The Island of Socotra -- Seas and Lands Lying West of the Gulf of Oman -- Ambergris and Whales -- An Account of Pearls -- Further Accounts of Indian Customs -- Afterword to the Second Book.

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