The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Forêt, Philippe, 1957-
Kaplony, Andreas |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxxi, 243 p., [33] p. of plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Brill's Inner Asian library ;
v. 21 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Asia |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Foreword / Lorenz Hurni
- Preface : what is a map? / Valerie Hansen
- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony
- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty iconography : questions and hypotheses / Nicolas Zufferey
- Visualizing pilgrimage and mapping experience : Mount Wutai on the Silk Road / Natasha Heller
- The mapping of sacred space : images of Buddhist cosmographies in medieval China / Dorothy C. Wong
- Lost in translation : gridded plans and maps along the Silk Road / Jonathan M. Bloom
- Square horoscope diagrams in Middle Eastern astrology and Chinese cosmological diagrams : were these designs transmitted through the Silk Road? / Johannes Thomann
- The intrusion of East Asian imagery in thirteenth-century Armenia : political and cultural exchange along the Silk Road / Dickran Kouymjian
- Comparing al-Kāshgharī's map to his text : on the visual language, purpose, and transmission of Arabic-Islamic maps / Andreas Kaplony
- The Book of curiosities : a medieval Islamic view of the East / Yossef Rapoport
- Celestial maps and illustrations in Arabic-Islamic astronomy / Paul Kunitzsch
- Revisiting Catalan portolan charts : do they contain elements of Asian provenance? / Sonja Brentjes
- Conclusion / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony
- Appendix. List of geographical nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī's text and map / Andreas Kaplony.
