TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hiatt,Alfred
TI  - Cartography Between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100-1500: Divergent Traditions
T2  - Maps, Spaces, Cultures Series
SN  - 9789004446038
AV  - GA221 .C378 2021 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World -- 1 Geographical thought in Medieval Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World -- 2 The Question of Interaction -- 1. The Transmission of Theoretical Geography: Maps of the Climata and the Reception -- 1 Maps of the Climata -- 1.1 The Seven Climes in the Arabic-Islamic Tradition -- 1.2 The Climata in the Latin West 1100-1500 -- 2 The World Map of De Causis Proprietatum Elementorum -- Appendix: Toponyms on the De causis map -- 2. Ptolemy's Geography in the Arabic-Islamic Context -- 1 Ptolemy and the Geography in Arab Sources -- 2 An Arabic Translation of the Geography? -- 3 The Geography (Ṣūrat al-arḍ) of al-Khwārazmī -- 4 The Nominal Authority of Ptolemy -- 5 Conclusion -- 3. The Transmission of Celestial Cartography from the Arabic-Islamic World to Europe -- 1 Traditions in Celestial Cartography -- 2 The Schoenberg Maps -- 3 Precession Correction -- 4 Iconography -- 5 Orientations -- 6 Conclusions -- 4. Geography at the Crossroads: The Nuzhat ­ al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq of al-Idrīsī -- 1 Al-Idrīsī and the Nuzhat al-mushtāq -- 2 The Nuzhat al-mushtāq at the Crossroads -- 5. "Transitional" or "Transcultural" Maps? The Function -- 1 Vesconte and Sanudo's World Map and Its Arabic-Islamic Counterpart -- 2 The Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Knowledge and Its Challenges: The Case of the Mountains of the Moon and the Caspian Sea -- 3 Place Names -- 4 The World Map and Sanudo's Liber secretorum -- 5 Conclusion -- 6. Pluricultural Sources of the Catalan Atlas -- 1 The Jewish Mapmakers of Majorca and Barcelona, Readers of Marco Polo? -- 2 Knowledge of Africa and India -- 3 A Collection of Stories and Images -- 3.1 The Caravan in the Lop Nor Desert -- 3.2 The Sati Ritual -- 4 Conclusion; Conclusion: Divergent Traditions -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Classical and Medieval Works -- Secondary Works -- Index
N2  - Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of interaction between medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic geographical thought, making the case for significant but limited cultural transfer across a range of map genres
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