著者名：

Rapoport, Yossef & Emilie Savage-Smith

出版元：

U. of Chicago Press

頁数：

368p color plates

刊行年：

2018

ISBN：

9780226540887

Cairo -- Geography -- History -- Cosmography -- Early works to 1800

About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of 35 chapters, this text guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as 'The Book of Curiosities', was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs' provides a general overview of 'The Book of Curiosities' and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought.

A discovery -- Macrocosm to microcosm: reading the skies and stars in Fatimid Egypt --
The rectangular world map --
The Nile, the Mountain of the Moon, and the white sand dunes --
The view from the sea: navigation and representation of maritime space --
Ports, gates, palaces: drawing Fatimid power on the island-city maps --
The Fatimid Mediterranean -- A musk road to China --
Down the African coast, from Aden to the Island of the Crocodile --
The Book of Curiosities and the Islamic geographical tradition --
Conclusion: maps, seas, and the Isma'ili mission

No.

36427

価格：

11,038円