Book ID: CBB678112778

Islamic Maps (2020)

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Rapoport, Yossef (Author)


Bodleian Library


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 192
Language: English

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.

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Review Jean-Charles Ducène (2021) Review of "Islamic Maps". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 102-103). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Speziale, Salvatore
Arkan, Merve Senem
Foliard, Daniel
Quixley, Robert Charles Edmund
Nasiri-Moghaddam, Nader
Kahlaoui, Tarek
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Science and society
Islam
Science and religion
Geography
Time Periods
Early modern
Medieval
Modern
Renaissance
Ancient
Enlightenment
Places
Mediterranean region
Europe
England
China
Iran
India
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