Lost maps of the caliphs : drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo

1. Verfasser: Rapoport, Yossef, 1968- , [VerfasserIn]
Savage-Smith, Emilie , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Umfang/Format: 349 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Lost maps of the caliphs : drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo., Rapoport, Yossef, 1968- (Online version)
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505 0 |a A discovery -- Macrocosm to microcosm: reading the skies and stars in Fatimid Egypt -- The rectangular world map -- The Nile, the Mountain of the Moon, and the white sand dunes -- The view from the sea: navigation and representation of maritime space -- Ports, gates, palaces: drawing Fatimid power on the island-city maps -- The Fatimid Mediterranean -- A musk road to China -- Down the African coast, from Aden to the Island of the Crocodile -- The Book of Curiosities and the Islamic geographical tradition -- Conclusion: maps, seas, and the Ismaili mission. 
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