Series | Eurasian Studies
Edited book | Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale
Chapter | The Naming of the Black Sea in Arabic-Islamic and Christian Sources
The Naming of the Black Sea in Arabic-Islamic and Christian Sources
Abstract
The paper deals with the naming of the Black Sea in Arabic-Islamic and Christian sources. Based on a purview of major designations of the Black Sea in the Arabic-Islamic and Christian geographical traditions, the author questions the geo-chromatic explanation of the name of the Black Sea. Instead, the author outlines a multi-layered naming structure in the system of the designations of the Black Sea. Historical names of the Black Sea in both Arabic-Islamic and Christian geographical traditions demonstrate independent trends in the naming of this sea which went through a convoluted process of semantic transformations as reflected in the extant records
Submitted: April 13, 2022 | Accepted: July 28, 2022 | Published April 26, 2023 | Language: en
Keywords The geo-chromatic designation • The descriptive geography • The Black Sea • The Arabic-Islamic geographical tradition • The Christian geographical tradition
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