000852379 000__ 04445cam\a2200493Ki\4500 000852379 001__ 852379 000852379 005__ 20210515154952.0 000852379 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000852379 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000852379 008__ 190110s2018\\\\ilu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000852379 020__ $$a9780226553405$$q(electronic book) 000852379 020__ $$a022655340X$$q(electronic book) 000852379 020__ $$z9780226540887 000852379 020__ $$z022654088X 000852379 035__ $$a(OCoLC)on1065537491 000852379 035__ $$a852379 000852379 040__ $$aN$T$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cN$T$$dEBLCP$$dYDX 000852379 043__ $$af-ua--- 000852379 049__ $$aISEA 000852379 050_4 $$aG93$$b.R37 2018eb 000852379 08204 $$a526.0962/1609021$$223 000852379 1001_ $$aRapoport, Yossef,$$d1968-$$eauthor. 000852379 24510 $$aLost maps of the caliphs :$$bdrawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo /$$cYossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith. 000852379 264_1 $$aChicago :$$bThe University of Chicago Press,$$c2018. 000852379 300__ $$a1 online resource (349 pages) 000852379 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000852379 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000852379 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000852379 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000852379 5050_ $$aA discovery -- Macrocosm to microcosm: reading the skies and stars in Fatimid Egypt -- The rectangular world map -- The Nile, the Mountain of the Moon, and the white sand dunes -- The view from the sea: navigation and representation of maritime space -- Ports, gates, palaces: drawing Fatimid power on the island-city maps -- The Fatimid Mediterranean -- A musk road to China -- Down the African coast, from Aden to the Island of the Crocodile -- The Book of Curiosities and the Islamic geographical tradition -- Conclusion: maps, seas, and the Ismaili mission. 000852379 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000852379 5208_ $$aAbout a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book 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 2000.00'Lost Maps of the Caliphs' provides the first general overview of 'The Book of Curiosities' and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought. Opening with an account of the remarkable discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library, the authors use 'The Book of Curiosities' to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography, and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Their account assesses the transmission of Late Antique geography to the Islamic world, unearths the logic behind abstract maritime diagrams, and considers the palaces and walls that dominate medieval Islamic plans of towns and ports. Early astronomical maps and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs' also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. It shows the Fatimid Empire, and its capital Cairo, as a global maritime power, with tentacles spanning from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and the East African coast.00As 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs' makes clear, not only is 'The Book of Curiosities' one of the greatest achievements of medieval mapmaking, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization that opens an unexpected window to the medieval Islamic view of the world. 000852379 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000852379 63000 $$aGharāʼib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʻuyūn. 000852379 650_0 $$aGeography, Medieval$$zEgypt$$vMaps. 000852379 650_0 $$aAstronomy, Medieval$$zEgypt$$vMaps. 000852379 650_0 $$aIslamic astrology$$vEarly works to 1800. 000852379 650_0 $$aCosmography$$vEarly works to 1800. 000852379 7001_ $$aSavage-Smith, Emilie,$$eauthor. 000852379 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aRapoport, Yossef, 1968-$$tLost maps of the caliphs.$$dChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018$$z9780226540887$$w(DLC) 2018004554$$w(OCoLC)1004267573 000852379 852__ $$bcoll 000852379 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central 000852379 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5257563$$zOnline Access 000852379 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:852379$$pGLOBAL_SET 000852379 980__ $$aEBOOK 000852379 980__ $$aBIB 000852379 982__ $$aEbook 000852379 983__ $$aOnline