TY  - GEN
AU  - Rapoport,Yossef
AU  - Savage-Smith,Emilie
TI  - Lost maps of the caliphs: drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo 
SN  - 9781851244911
U1  - 523.108992762 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
KW  - Cosmography
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Cartography
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Cairo
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Geography
KW  - Astronomy, Medieval
N1  - 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
ER  -