Medieval Islamic Maps
An Exploration
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Ways of Seeing Islamic Maps
Chapter 2 A Look Back
Chapter 3 A Sketch of the Islamic Mapping Tradition
Chapter 4 KMMS World Maps Primer
Chapter 5 Iconography of the Encircling Ocean
Chapter 6 Classical and Medieval Encircling Oceans
Chapter 7 The Muslim Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ
Chapter 8 The Beja in Time and Space
Chapter 9 How the Beja Capture Imagination
Chapter 10 Meḥmed II and Map Patronage
Chapter 11 The KMMS Ottoman Cluster
Chapter 12 Source of the Ottoman Cluster
Chapter 13 Conclusion: Mundus est immundus
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Art: Middle Eastern, African, and Asian Art
Geography: Cartography
History: Middle Eastern History
Religion: Islam
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