Creating the Mediterranean : maps and the Islamic imagination / by Tarek Kahlaoui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahlaoui, Tarek, author.

Series:

Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ; Section 1, v. 119.

Handbook of oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Mediterranean Region--History.

Cartography.

Cartography--Islamic countries--History.

Maps.

History.

Mediterranean Region--Maps--History.

Mediterranean Region.

Islamic countries.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Contents:

The Image of the Mediterranean and the Braudelean-Pirennean Narratives p. 1

The Significance of the Image of the Mediterranean in Art History p. 10

Cartography and Art: A Theoretical Frame p. 14

Part 1 The Formation of the Mediterranean in the Islamic Imagination

1 Imagination and Myths p. 23

The Mediterranean in Arabic p. 24

Defining Bahr al-Rum p. 33

The Myths of the Mediterranean p. 41

2 The Early Medieval Cartographic Representations of the Mediterranean p. 50

The Geography of Itineraries and the Pre-history of the Image of the Mediterranean p. 50

Delimiting the Mediterranean as Viewed by Muslims p. 59

3 Redefining the "Atlas of Islam" School: Two Diverse Traditions Depicting the Mediterranean p. 65

The "Regional" Textual Context of the "Atlas of Islam" Maps of the Mediterranean p. 65

The "Atlas of Islam" School: Texts vs. Maps p. 68

Comparative Cartography and the Transmission of the "Atlas of Islam" Maps of the Mediterranean p. 76

The Istakhrian vs. the Hawqalian Traditions in the "Atlas of Islam" School p. 80

On Interpreting the Stylistic Cartographic Approaches to the Mediterranean p. 95

The Cartographic Perceptions That Define the Mediterranean p. 98

Part 2 The Mediterranean of the Maghribi Geographers and Cartographers from the Fifth/Eleventh to the Ninth/Fifteenth Century

4 The Increase in Maritime Sources in the Maghribi Islamic Geography of the Mediterranean (Fourth/Tenth to the Fift6h/Eleventh Century) p. 107

The Rise of the North African Geographers and Their Approach to the Mediterranean p. 108

Byzantine Sources for the Mediterranean from the Perspective of a Late Fatimid Geographer p. 119

5 The Idrisian Mediterranean Mapping (Sixth/Twelfth to the Ninth/ Fifteenth Century) p. 142

The Idrisian "Mediterranean Islamic" Cartography: Redefining the Idrisian Corpus: Idrisian Mapping as a Mediterranean Project p. 142

The Mediterranean in the Idrisian Geographic and Cartographic Representations p. 158

The Idrisian Legacy: Mediterranean Mediators of the "Idrisian" Mediterranean p. 168

Ibn Khaldun and the Transmission of "Idrisian" Mapping in the Ninth-/Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean p. 172

Part 3 The Image of the Mediterranean in Islamic Maritime Cartography (Eighth-/Fourteenth to Tenth/Sixteenth Century)

6 The Maghribi-Andalusian Maritime Cartography: The Mediterranean of the Andalusian Sea Captains p. 181

The Formation of a Maghribi School of Maritime Cartography (Eighth/Fourteenth to the Ninth/Fifteenth Century) p. 181

The Sharfi Family: Maghribi Mapping in the Tenth/Sixteenth Century p. 207

7 The Imperial Ottoman Mediterranean and the Transmission of the Tenth-/Sixteenth-Century Mapping of the Mediterranean p. 240

Ottoman Maritime Cartography: The Mediterranean as an Imperial Ottoman Image p. 240

Maghribi-Ottoman Maritime Mapping: Originality and Cartographic Transmission p. 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kahlaoui, Tarek, author. Creating the Mediterranean

ISBN:

9789004346192

9004346198

OCLC:

1019719350