Creating the Mediterranean : maps and the Islamic imagination /

Creating the Mediterranean : maps and the Islamic imagination /

In Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination Tarek Kahlaoui treats the subject of the Islamic visual representations of the Mediterranean. It tracks the history of the Islamic visualization of the sea from when geography was created by the Islamic state's bureaucrats of the t...

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Main Author: Kahlaoui, Tarek.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 119.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.

Subjects:

Cartography > Mediterranean Region > History.
Cartography.
Maps.
Mediterranean Region > Maps > History.
Islamic countries.
Mediterranean Region.
History.

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Call Number: GA205 .K34 2018

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • The Formation of the Mediterranean in the Islamic Imagination
  • Imagination and Myths
  • The Early Medieval Cartographic Representations of the Mediterranean
  • Redefining the "Atlas of Islam" School: Two Diverse Traditions Depicting the Mediterranean
  • The Mediterranean of the Maghribi Geographers and Cartographers from the Fifth/Eleventh to the Ninth/Fifteenth Century
  • The Increase in Maritime Sources in the Maghribi Islamic Geography of the Mediterranean (Fourth/Tenth to the Fifth/Eleventh Century)
  • The Idrisian Mediterranean Mapping (Sixth/Twelfth to the Ninth/Fifteenth Century)
  • The Image of the Mediterranean in Islamic Maritime Cartography (Eighth-/Fourteenth to the Tenth/Sixteenth Century)
  • The Maghribi-Andalusian Maritime Cartography: The Mediterranean of the Andalusian Sea Captains
  • The Imperial Ottoman Mediterranean and the Transmission of the Tenth-/Sixteenth-Century Mapping of the Mediterranean
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.