Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    A Naql book

    Carried Across

    How ideas travel

    Adnan Abbasi

    Ideas do not travel. They are carried, one decision at a time, by people with names, for reasons of their own, at prices someone agreed to pay. Nine chapters and an afterword on the mechanics of carrying, drawn from the 27 verified chains of this atlas: the bodies books live in, the bilingual communities that did the work, the patrons who paid, the lone obsessives, the productive errors, the absence of any plan, and what carrying means now that some of the readers are machines.

    Contents

    1. · Preface
    2. 1 The herb that raises the dead
    3. 2 A book is a body
    4. 3 The men in the middle
    5. 4 Who pays
    6. 5 For love of the Almagest
    7. 6 Traveling badly
    8. 7 Nobody planned this
    9. 8 The chains become rails
    10. 9 The new carriers
    11. 10 Carried by mention
    12. 11 The fascination clause
    13. 12 Afterword: why Falsafa

    The object

    The book is another build target of the repository. Chapters are markdown under book/manuscript/; the appendices of the print edition (all fourteen chains, the method note, the bibliography) are generated from the same dataset that builds this site, so the book cannot drift from the atlas. Open the print edition and print it to PDF from the browser.