Medieval Islamic maps: an exploration

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Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of 8 centuries testifies to the enduring importance of these medieval visions for the Muslim cartographic imagination. With Medieval Islamic Maps, historian Karen C. Pinto brings us the first in-depth exploration of medieval Islamic cartography from the mid-10th to the 19th centu…

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Title Statements

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

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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 : : illustrations, maps ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226126968, 022612696X
oclc:ocn908698989
LC Classification:GA221
Dewey Decimal:912.092/21767

Introduction: Ways of seeing Islamic maps -- 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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Bedja (Peuple d'Afrique) Beja (African people) Cartographie -- Histoire. -- Empire isl… Cartography Cartography -- History. -- Islamic coun… Cartography -- History. -- Islamic Empi… Géographie arabe Géographie médiévale Geography, Arab Geography, Medieval History Islam Islamic Empire Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Karte Kartografie Welt Weltkarte