The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: A comparative summa orientalis?

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Titre
The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: A comparative summa orientalis?
Date
2022
Dans
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Résumé
Starting from a consideration of Tomé Pires’ 1515 Suma Oriental, this article considers the feasibility, nature, and relevance of a summa orientalis in the form of a Portuguese Early Maritime Corpus. When this corpus is compared with Arabic nautical literature, primarily Ibn Mājid and Sulaymān al-Mahrī, and especially with attention to the technical aspects of their writings, then the desirability of an Indian Ocean Maritime Corpus is envisaged. The centrality and the mediating role of Arab pilots and Arabic nautical literature indicate that the first step is the delimitation of an Arabic Early Maritime Corpus.
Langue
eng
volume
51
pages
1-5
issn
0308-8421
Titre abrégé
The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots
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Acevedo, Juan, “The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: A comparative summa orientalis?”, 2022, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/23571

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