Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100-1500: Divergent Traditions

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Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of interaction between medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic geographical thought, making the case for significant but limited cultural transfer across a range of map genres. Contents Acknowledgements Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World 1 Geographical thought in Medieval Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World 2 The Question of Interaction 1. The Transmission of Theoretical Geography: Maps of the Climata and the Reception 1 Maps of the Climata 1.1 The Seven Climes in the Arabic-Islamic Tradition 1.2 The Climata in the Latin West 1100–1500 2 The World Map of De Causis Proprietatum Elementorum Appendix: Toponyms on the De causis map 2. Ptolemy’s Geography in the Arabic-Islamic Context 1 Ptolemy and the Geography in Arab Sources 2 An Arabic Translation of the Geography? 3 The Geography (Ṣūrat al-arḍ) of al-Khwārazmī 4 The Nominal Authority of Ptolemy 5 Conclusion 3. The Transmission of Celestial Cartography from the Arabic-Islamic World to Europe 1 Traditions in Celestial Cartography 2 The Schoenberg Maps 3 Precession Correction 4 Iconography 5 Orientations 6 Conclusions 4. Geography at the Crossroads: The Nuzhat ­ al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq of al-Idrīsī 1 Al-Idrīsī and the Nuzhat al-mushtāq 2 The Nuzhat al-mushtāq at the Crossroads 5. “Transitional” or “Transcultural” Maps? The Function 1 Vesconte and Sanudo’s World Map and Its Arabic-Islamic Counterpart 2 The Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Knowledge and Its Challenges: The Case of the Mountains of the Moon and the Caspian Sea 3 Place Names 4 The World Map and Sanudo’s Liber secretorum 5 Conclusion 6. Pluricultural Sources of the Catalan Atlas 1 The Jewish Mapmakers of Majorca and Barcelona, Readers of Marco Polo? 2 Knowledge of Africa and India 3 A Collection of Stories and Images 3.1 The Caravan in the Lop Nor Desert 3.2 The Sati Ritual 4 Conclusion Conclusion: Divergent Traditions Bibliography Manuscripts Classical and Medieval Works Secondary Works Index