Medieval Islamic maps: an exploration

by Pinto, Karen C.

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Full title :Medieval Islamic maps : an exploration / Karen C. Pinto.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:x, 406 pages ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226126968, 022612696X
oclc:on1292000731
LC Classification:GA221
Dewey Decimal:912.092/21767

A look back -- A sketch of the Islamic mapping tradition -- KMMS world maps primer -- Iconography of the encircling ocean -- Classical and medieval encircling oceans -- The muslim Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ -- The Beja in time and space -- How the Beja capture imagination -- Mehmed II and map patronage -- The KMMS Ottoman cluster -- Source of the Ottoman cluster -- Conclusion: mundus est immundus.

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