Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World / / ed. by Christoph Mauntel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Baumgärtner, Ingrid,; Bouloux, Nathalie,; Ducène, Jean-Charles,; Etienne Du Bois, Raoul Marc,; Ferro, Eva,; Franz, Kurt,; King, David A.,; Mauntel, Christoph ,; Mauntel, Christoph,; Pinto, Karen C.,; Schmieder, Felicitas,; Schröder, Stefan,; Vagnon, Emmanuelle,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 312 p.)

In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail. This volume addresses this deside...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Geography and Religious Knowledge
• Part I: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin- Christian Geography
• It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, it’s the World!
• The T-O Diagram and its Religious Connotations
• Part II: Compiling Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas
• Ordering and Reading the World
• The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’
• Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions
• Part III: Presenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms
• The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from around 1500
• The Culmination of Islamic Sacred Geography
• Religious Knowledge within Changing Cartographical Worldviews
• Part IV: Depicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps
• When Religious Geography meets the Geography of Humanists
• The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience
• Getting There by Manipulating the Medium
• Note on Contributors
• Index