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

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