Creating the Mediterranean : : maps and the Islamic imagination / / by Tarek Kahlaoui.

• Superior document: Handbook of oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one, The Near and Middle East, v. 119
• Author: Kahlaoui, Tarek.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 119.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 pages).

In Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination Tarek Kahlaoui treats the subject of the Islamic visual representations of the Mediterranean. It tracks the history of the Islamic visualization of the sea from when geography was created by the Islamic state’s bureaucrats of the tenth century C.E. located mainly in the central Islamic lands, to the later men of the field, specifically the sea captains from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries C.E. located in the western Islamic lands. A narrative has emerged from this investigation in which the metamorphosis of the identity of the author or mapmaker seemed to be changing with the rest of the elements that constitute the identity of a map: its reader or viewer, its style and structure, and its textual content.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- The Formation of the Mediterranean in the Islamic Imagination -- Imagination and Myths -- The Early Medieval Cartographic Representations of the Mediterranean -- Redefining the “Atlas of Islam” School: Two Diverse Traditions Depicting the Mediterranean -- The Mediterranean of the Maghribi Geographers and Cartographers from the Fifth/Eleventh to the Ninth/Fifteenth Century -- The Increase in Maritime Sources in the Maghribi Islamic Geography of the Mediterranean (Fourth/Tenth to the Fifth/Eleventh Century) -- The Idrisian Mediterranean Mapping (Sixth/Twelfth to the Ninth/Fifteenth Century) -- The Image of the Mediterranean in Islamic Maritime Cartography (Eighth-/Fourteenth to the Tenth/Sixteenth Century) -- The Maghribi-Andalusian Maritime Cartography: The Mediterranean of the Andalusian Sea Captains -- The Imperial Ottoman Mediterranean and the Transmission of the Tenth-/Sixteenth-Century Mapping of the Mediterranean -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.