Creating the Mediterranean : maps and the Islamic imagination

1. Verfasser: Kahlaoui, Tarek , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xv, 353 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Schriftenreihe: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East 119.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Kahlaoui, Tarek., Creating the Mediterranean. (Online version:) | ISSN: 9789004347380
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.