Islamic Maps - Couverture rigide

Rapoport, Yossef

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1851244921 ISBN 13 : 9781851244928

Editeur : Bodleian Library, 2019

Synopsis

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of Islamic cartography and the key Muslim map-makers who shaped the art over the centuries. Muslim geographers like al-Khwārazmī and al-Idrīsī developed distinctive styles, often based on geometrical patterns and calligraphy, and their maps covered all the known world, from the sources of the Nile to the European lands of the north and the Wall of Gog and Magog in the east. These map-makers combined novel cartographical techniques with art, science, and geographical knowledge to produce maps that could be both aesthetically stunning and mathematically sophisticated.

Islamic Maps examines Islamic visual interpretations of the world in their historical context through the map-makers themselves. What was the purpose of their maps, what choices did they make, and what arguments about the world were they trying to convey? Lavishly illustrated with stunning manuscripts, beautiful instruments, and Qibla charts, this book shows how maps constructed by Muslim map-makers capture the many dimensions of Islamic civilization across the centuries.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yossef Rapoport is a reader in Islamic history at Queen Mary University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bodleian Library
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1851244921
• ISBN 13: 9781851244928
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible