An Historical Atlas of Islam [cartographic Material]
Author : William Charles Brice
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004061163
Author : William Charles Brice
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004061163
Author : Karen C. Pinto
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2016-11
Category : History
ISBN : 022612696X
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.
Author : David Nicolle
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Cyrus Alai
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004201300
This volume complements the best-seller and award-winning General Maps of Persia. Cyrus Alai continued his research and collected further material to produce this volume, covering every map of that region, other than general maps.
Author : Hugh N. Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Islamic countries
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Author : Robert Cribb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136780572
This pioneering volume traces the history of the region which became Indonesia, from early times to the present day, in over three hundred specially drawn full-colour maps with detailed accompanying text. In doing so, the Atlas brings fresh life to the fascinating and tangled history of this immense archipelago. Beginning with the geographical and ecological forces which have shaped the physical form of the archipelago, the Historical Atlas of Indonesia goes on to chart early human migration and the changing distribution of ethnic groups. It traces the kaleidoscopic pattern of states in early Indonesia and their gradual incorporation into the Netherlands Indies and eventually into the Republic of Indonesia.
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Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Islamic countries
ISBN : 9780415426008
Author : Roelof Roolvink
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Islam
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Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 022660571X
“In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of ‘cartography’ to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps.” —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 Maps Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same. “[An] intellectually bracing and marvellously provocative account of how the mythical ideal of cartography developed over time and, in the process, distorted our understanding of maps.” —Times Higher Education “Cartography: The Ideal and Its History offers both a sharp critique of current practice and a call to reorient the field of map studies. A landmark contribution.” —Kären Wigen, coeditor of Time in Maps
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9004446036
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.