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Subject(s)

• Cartography—Islamic Empire—History [Browse]
• Geography, Arab [Browse]
• Geography, Medieval [Browse]
• Beja (African people) [Browse]
• Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad -957 or 958—Masālik wa-al-mamālik [Browse]

Summary note

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 century."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-392) and index.

Contents

• 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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ISBN

• 9780226126968 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
• 022612696X ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))

LCCN

2015017867

OCLC

908698989

International Article Number

• 9780226126968

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