Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Discovery -- Chapter 2. Macrocosm to Microcosm: Reading the Skies and Stars in Fatimid Egypt -- Chapter 3. The Rectangular World Map -- Chapter 4. The Nile, The Mountain of the Moon, and the White Sand Dunes -- Chapter 5. The View from the Sea: Navig...
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Language: | English |
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press
2018
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In: | Year: 2018 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Handwriting (Bodleian Library) Ms. Arab. c. 90
B Fatimidenreich / Map / World map / History 1000-1100 |
Further subjects: | B
Astronomy, Medieval-Egypt-Maps
B Astronomy, Medieval B Islamic astrology-Early works to 1800 B Geography, Medieval-Egypt-Maps B Electronic books B Islamic astrology B Gharāib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn B Geography, Medieval B Cosmography-Early works to 1800 B Cosmography |
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Print version: Rapoport, Yossef: Lost Maps of the Caliphs : Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press,c2018. - 9780226540887 |
Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Discovery -- Chapter 2. Macrocosm to Microcosm: Reading the Skies and Stars in Fatimid Egypt -- Chapter 3. The Rectangular World Map -- Chapter 4. The Nile, The Mountain of the Moon, and the White Sand Dunes -- Chapter 5. The View from the Sea: Navigation and Representation of Maritime Space -- Chapter 6. Ports, Gates, Palaces: Drawing Fatimid Power on the Island-City Maps -- Chapter 7. The Fatimid Mediterranean -- Chapter 8. A Musk Road to China -- Chapter 9. Down the African Coast, From Aden to the Island of the Crocodile -- Chapter 10. The Book of Curiosities and the Islamic Geographical Tradition -- Conclusion. Maps, Seas, and the Isma'ili Mission -- Appendix: A Technical Discourse on Star Lore and Astrology -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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ISBN: | 022655340X |