Reading Rasūlid Maps: An Early 14th-Century Geographical Resource

While there is a tradition of Islamic world maps and geographic depictions of direction to the Kaʿba in Mecca, relatively few detailed maps of individual Islamic realms have been studied. In an early 14th-century tax ledger compiled for the Rasūlid sultan al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Dāwūd (d. 721/1321), th...

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Subtitles:Thematic Focus: Rasūlid Entanglement in the Medieval Islamic World and Beyond
Main Author: Varisco, Daniel Martin 1951- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter [2021]
In: Der Islam
Year: 2021, Volume: 98, Issue: 1, Pages: 100-152
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