An Ottoman Cosmography : Translation of Cihānnümā /

Cihānnümā is the summa of Ottoman geography and one of the axial texts of Islamic intellectual history. Kātib Çelebi (d. 1657) sought to combine the Islamic geographical tradition with the new European discoveries, atlases and surveys. His cosmography included a comprehensive description of the regi...

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Main Author: Çelebi, Kātib (Author)

Other Authors: Dankoff, Robert (Editor), Hagen, Gottfried (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Turkish

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 142.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441286.

Subjects:

Cartography > Early works to 1800.

Cosmography > Early works to 1800.

Geography > Early works to 1800.