Medieval Islamic Maps - An Exploration

Informationen zum Autor Karen C. Pinto is assistant professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern history at Boise State University. Klappentext The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition of medieval Islamic maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms ( Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS). Created from the mid-tenth through the nineteenth century, these maps offered Islamic rulers, scholars, and armchair explorers a view of the physical and human geography of the Arabian peninsula, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, Spain and North Africa, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Iranian provinces, present-day Pakistan, and Transoxiana. Historian Karen C. Pinto examines around 100 examples of these maps retrieved from archives across the world from three points of view: iconography, context, and patronage. By unraveling their many symbols, she guides us through new ways of viewing the Muslim cartographic imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Karen C. Pinto
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2016
• EAN: 9780226126968
• ISBN: 978-0-226-12696-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Maps, city plans, atlases; Islam, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, HISTORY / Historical Geography, Middle East, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Middle Eastern history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Historical maps and atlases, Historical maps & atlases