Medieval islamic maps : an exploration
| 1. Verfasser: |
Pinto, Karen C.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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| Umfang/Format: |
x, 406 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: Ways of Seeing Islamic Maps
- 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.
