Accounts of China and India /
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| Language: | English Arabic |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Library of Arabic literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Letter from the General Editor; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes to the Introduction; Map: The Lands and Seas of Abu Zāyd's Accounts; 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 Sīrāf to Khānfū; 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 PeopleChinese 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-Qurashī to the King of China; How the Seas Are Connected One to Another; The Kingdom of al-Mihrāj; The Land of al-Qamār 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 Sarandīb and of the Region of al-Aghbāb, Which Faces ItGeneral 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; Notes; Glossary of Names and Terms; Bibliography; Index; About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute; About the Translator; The Library of Arabic Literature.
