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. Here, historian Karen C. Pinto brings us the first in-depth exploration of medieval Islamic cartography from the mid-10th to the 19th century.

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

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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:1 online resource (x, 406 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226127019, 022612701X
oclc:ocn957615144
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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Bedja (Peuple d'Afrique) Beja (African people) Cartographie -- Histoire. -- Empire isl… Cartographie -- Histoire. -- Pays musul… Cartography Cartography -- History. -- Islamic coun… Cartography -- History. -- Islamic Empi… Géographie arabe Géographie médiévale Geography, Arab Geography, Medieval History Islam Islamic countries Islamic Empire Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Kartografie REFERENCE -- Atlases & Gazetteers Travel -- Maps & Road Atlases Weltkarte