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Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

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

Participants in the publication
Juan Acevedo (Author)
Unidade de I&D e Inovação
 CIUHCT
Summary
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 Majid and Sulayman al-Mahri, 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.

Date of Publication
2022-07-28

Where published
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 0308-8421

Volume
5

Starting page
1
Last page
5

Document Identifiers
URL - https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/PSAS/article/view/573

Rankings
SCIMAGO - (2020) - 0.206 - Archeology (arts and humanities)
SCIMAGO - (2020) - 0.206 - Cultural Studies
SCIMAGO - (2020) - 0.206 - History

Keywords
Arabic history of science and technology early modern science indian ocean


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APA
Juan Acevedo, (2022). The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: A comparative summa orientalis?. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 5, 1-5. ISSN 0308-8421. eISSN . https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/PSAS/article/view/573

IEEE
Juan Acevedo, "The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: A comparative summa orientalis?" in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, vol. 5, pp. 1-5, 2022.

BIBTEX
@article{58504, author = {Juan Acevedo}, title = {The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: A comparative summa orientalis?}, journal = {Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies}, year = 2022, pages = {1-5}, volume = 5 }