Tipo
Artigos em Revista
Tipo de Documento
Artigo Completo
Título
The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: A comparative summa orientalis?
Participantes na publicação
Juan Acevedo (Author)
Unidade de I&D e Inovação
CIUHCT
Resumo
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.
Data de Publicação
2022-07-28
Suporte
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Identificadores da Publicação
ISSN - 0308-8421
Página Inicial
1
Página Final
5
Identificadores do Documento
URL -
https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/PSAS/article/view/573
Identificadores de Qualidade
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