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Lost maps of the caliphs: drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo
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022654088X (hbk.)
9780226540887 (hbk.)
Author
Rapoport, Yossef 1968-
Title
Lost maps of the caliphs : drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo / Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018
Physical desc.
349 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Note
CBL illustrations: p. 50, fig. 2.6 (Ar 4538, f. 5a).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-336) and index.
Contents
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 Isma'ili mission.
Subject
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 4538
Gharāʼib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʻuyūn
Geography, Medieval -- Egypt -- Maps
Astronomy, Medieval -- Egypt -- Maps
Islamic astrology -- Early works to 1800
Cosmography -- Early works to 1800
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