Lost maps of the caliphs: drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo
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Druckschrift
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Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Ort:
Chicago
Date:
[2018]
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
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 Ismaili mission
Object text:
Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith
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2023-04-18
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2023-02-13
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2023-04-18
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