Islamic Maps

by Yossef Rapoport

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of Islamic cartography and the key Muslim map-makers who shaped the art over the centuries. Muslim geographers like al-Khwarazmi and al-Idrisi developed distinctive styles, often based on geometrical patterns and calligraphy, and their maps covered all the known world, from the sources of the Nile to the European lands of the north and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851244921
• ISBN13: 9781851244928
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.6" x 11.3"