Lost Maps of the Caliphs
Editorial THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY PUB.
Mainland Spain
- Publisher THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY PUB.
- ISBN13 9781851244911
- ISBN10 1851244913
- Type Book
- Pages 368
- Published 2018
Lost Maps of the Caliphs
Editorial THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY PUB.
Mainland Spain
Book Details
'This study is the first overview of a masterpiece of medieval mapmaking and Islamic civilisation.' * Apollo * "With its focus on eleventh-century Fatimid Cairo, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs' reinterprets early Islamic apprehensions of the earth and the heavens, while reorienting our modern understanding of medieval Arabic mapmaking and its part in the transmission of Late Antique cartographic knowledge. A remarkable and important book of dazzling scholarship." -- Jerry Brotton * author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps * "The two authors, Savage-Smith on the heavens and Rapoport on the earth, explain 'The Book of Curiosities' with exemplary scholarship and lucidity. Like the manuscript itself, this companion volume vastly enhances our understanding of the classical Arabic worldview in all its rich complexity." -- Hugh N. Kennedy * SOAS, University of London * "'Lost Maps of the Caliphs' is organized along the lines of the original manuscript, and exceptionally well documented, using a dazzling range of sources in an equally dazzling range of languages. The result is totally fascinating, with untold potential to illuminate any treatment of the medieval world on any continent in the Eastern Hemisphere." -- Ingrid Rowland * University of Notre Dame *