Lost maps of the caliphs :
Rapoport, Yossef.
Lost maps of the caliphs : drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo / Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith. - Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018. - 349 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
9781851244911 (hbk)
Cosmography--Early works to 1800.
Cartography--History--Egypt--Cairo--To 1500.
Cartography--Early works to 1800.
Geography--Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Medieval--Egypt--Cairo.
523.108992762 / Q8
Lost maps of the caliphs : drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo / Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith. - Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018. - 349 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
9781851244911 (hbk)
Cosmography--Early works to 1800.
Cartography--History--Egypt--Cairo--To 1500.
Cartography--Early works to 1800.
Geography--Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Medieval--Egypt--Cairo.
523.108992762 / Q8