Medieval Islamic Maps

Author : Karen C. Pinto
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226126968

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Medieval Islamic Maps by Karen C. Pinto Pdf

The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition of medieval Islamic maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS). Created from the mid-tenth through the nineteenth century, these maps offered Islamic rulers, scholars, and armchair explorers a view of the physical and human geography of the Arabian peninsula, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, Spain and North Africa, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Iranian provinces, present-day Pakistan, and Transoxiana. Historian Karen C. Pinto examines around 100 examples of these maps retrieved from archives across the world from three points of view: iconography, context, and patronage. By unraveling their many symbols, she guides us through new ways of viewing the Muslim cartographic imagination.

Author : Yossef Rapoport
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 1851244921

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Islamic Maps by Yossef Rapoport Pdf

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and their maps stretched from Isfahan to Palermo, from Istanbul to Cairo and Aden. Over a similar period, Muslim artists developed distinctive styles, often based on geometrical patterns and calligraphy. Map-makers, including al-Khwārazmī and al-Idrīsī, combined novel cartographical techniques with art, science and geographical knowledge. The results could be aesthetically stunning and mathematically sophisticated, politically charged as well as a celebration of human diversity. 'Islamic Maps' examines Islamic visual interpretations of the world in their historical context, through the lives of the map-makers themselves. What was the purpose of their maps, what choices did they make and what was the argument they were trying to convey? Lavishly illustrated with stunning manuscripts, beautiful instruments and Qibla charts, this book shows how maps constructed by Muslim map-makers capture the many dimensions of Islamic civilisation, providing a window into the worldviews of Islamic societies.

Author : Travis Zadeh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786721310

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Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam by Travis Zadeh Pdf

The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran, has been either dismissed as superstition or treated as historical fact. By exploring the intellectual and literary history surrounding the production and early reception of this adventure, Travis Zadeh traces the conceptualization of frontiers within early 'Abbasid society and re-evaluates the modern treatment of marvels and monsters inhabiting medieval Islamic descriptions of the world. Examining the roles of translation, descriptive geography, and salvation history in the projection of early 'Abbasid imperial power, this book is essential for all those interested in Islamic studies, the 'Abbasid dynasty and its politics, geography, religion, Arabic and Persian literature and European Orientalism.

Author : Yossef Rapoport,Emilie Savage-Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226553405

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Lost Maps of the Caliphs by Yossef Rapoport,Emilie Savage-Smith Pdf

About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought. Opening with an account of the remarkable discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library, the authors use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography, and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Their account assesses the transmission of Late Antique geography to the Islamic world, unearths the logic behind abstract maritime diagrams, and considers the palaces and walls that dominate medieval Islamic plans of towns and ports. Early astronomical maps and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. Lost Maps of the Caliphs also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. It shows the Fatimid Empire, and its capital Cairo, as a global maritime power, with tentacles spanning from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and the East African coast. As Lost Maps of the Caliphs makes clear, not only is The Book of Curiosities one of the greatest achievements of medieval mapmaking, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization that opens an unexpected window to the medieval Islamic view of the world.

Author : Tarek Kahlaoui
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004347380

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Creating the Mediterranean by Tarek Kahlaoui Pdf

In Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination Tarek Kahlaoui treats the subject of the Islamic visual representations of the Mediterranean. It tracks the history of the Islamic visualization of the sea from when geography was created by the Islamic state’s bureaucrats of the tenth century C.E. located mainly in the central Islamic lands, to the later men of the field, specifically the sea captains from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries C.E. located in the western Islamic lands. A narrative has emerged from this investigation in which the metamorphosis of the identity of the author or mapmaker seemed to be changing with the rest of the elements that constitute the identity of a map: its reader or viewer, its style and structure, and its textual content.

Author : Zayde Antrim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190227159

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Routes and Realms by Zayde Antrim Pdf

Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land from the ninth through the eleventh centuries, the earliest period of intensive written production in Arabic. In this groundbreaking first book, Zayde Antrim develops a "discourse of place," a framework for approaching formal texts devoted to the representation of territory across genres. The discourse of place included such varied works as topographical histories, literary anthologies, religious treatises, world geographies, poetry, travel literature, and maps. By closely reading and analyzing these works, Antrim argues that their authors imagined plots of land primarily as homes, cities, and regions and associated them with a range of claims to religious and political authority. She contends that these are evidence of the powerful ways in which the geographical imagination was tapped to declare loyalty and invoke belonging in the early Islamic world, reinforcing the importance of the earliest regional mapping tradition in the Islamic world. Routes and Realms challenges a widespread tendency to underestimate the importance of territory and to over-emphasize the importance of religion and family to notions of community and belonging among Muslims and Arabs, both in the past and today.

Author : Hyunhee Park
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107018686

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Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds by Hyunhee Park Pdf

This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.

Author : Zayde Antrim
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780239545

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Mapping the Middle East by Zayde Antrim Pdf

Mapping the Middle East explores the many ways people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus River Valleys over the past millennium. By analyzing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. As Antrim argues, better-known maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—a period coinciding with European colonialism and the rise of the nation-state—not only obscure this rich past, but also constrain visions for the region’s future. Organized chronologically, Mapping the Middle East addresses the medieval “Realm of Islam;” the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire; French and British colonialism through World War I; nationalism in modern Turkey, Iran, and Israel/Palestine; and alternative geographies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Vivid color illustrations throughout allow readers to compare the maps themselves with Antrim’s analysis. Much more than a conventional history of cartography, Mapping the Middle East is an incisive critique of the changing relationship between maps and belonging in a dynamic world region over the past thousand years.

Author : Keith D. Lilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107783003

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Mapping Medieval Geographies by Keith D. Lilley Pdf

Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical tradition and charts the evolution of celestial and earthly geography in terms of its intellectual, visual and textual representations; whilst Part II explores geographical imaginations; that is to say, those 'imagined geographies' that came into being as a result of everyday spatial and spiritual experience. Bringing together approaches from art, literary studies, intellectual history and historical geography, this pioneering volume will be essential reading for scholars concerned with visual and textual modes of geographical representation and transmission, as well as the spaces and places of knowledge creation and consumption.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004256996

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An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe by Anonim Pdf

The Book of Curiosities is an eleventh-century Arabic account of the heavens and the Earth, illustrated by remarkable maps and astronomical diagrams. This authoritative edition and translation opens a unique window onto the geographical and astrological knowledge of medieval Islam.

Author : Neguin Yavari,Lawrence G. Potter,Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0231509367

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Views from the Edge by Neguin Yavari,Lawrence G. Potter,Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim Pdf

These essays were written by colleagues and former students of Richard Bulliet, the preeminent Middle East scholar whose "most important contribution remains his extraordinary imagination in the service of history." The hallmark of the book, then, is innovative scholarship in all periods of Islamic history. Its authors share a commitment to asking original historiographical questions, with an overall orientation toward issues in social history.

Author : James E. Lindsay
Publisher : Daily Life Through History series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Islamic Empire
ISBN : 0872209342

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Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World by James E. Lindsay Pdf

Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activities as cooking, games, dress, and parenting.

Author : Tsugitaka Sato
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004493186

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State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam by Tsugitaka Sato Pdf

This book deals with the evolution of Islamic state and society from the 10th to the 14th centuries, focusing on the history of the Arab society under the iqṭā‘ (allocated tax revenue) system. The book offers a well documented study of the system with its use of hitherto unpublished Arabic manuscripts. The introductory chapter deals with the historical origins of the iqṭā‘ system, while chapters that follow discuss the history of the system in Iraq, Syria and Egypt, including systematic studies on the rural life and peasantry in Egypt. State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam is the first thorough, book-length study to show how this system may explain various historical phenomena in medieval Islam. The iqṭā‘ system now can be seen as a system with a comprehensive life of its own.

Author : Nancy L. Benco
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061318351

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Anatomy of a Medieval Islamic Town by Nancy L. Benco Pdf

The site of Al-Basra lies in northern Morocco and was said to have been founded during the break-up of the Islamic empire in North Africa and Spain in c.AD 800, only to have been abandoned just 300 years later.

Author : Rouben Galichian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Armenia
ISBN : UOM:39076002681539

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Countries South of the Caucasus in Medieval Maps by Rouben Galichian Pdf