A Look Back
A Look Back
Chapter Two, “A Look Back” provides a comprehensive overview of secondary scholarship on the subject of Islamic mapping. It surveys the work that has been done on the Islamic mapping tradition from the eighteenth and nineteenth century until today. It discusses the growing emphasis on the importance of maps as material culture wellsprings of historical information.
Keywords: historiography of Islamic mapping, Islamic geography, Sezgin, Konrad Miller, Kramers, Tibbetts, Mappae Arabicae, kharita, jughrafiya, The History of Cartography
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