The Muslim Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ
The Muslim Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ
Chapter Seven, “The Muslim Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ” details medieval Islam’s understanding of the Encircling Ocean from religious and cartographic perspectives, and follows the progression of the form’s symbolic evolution from a marker of unknown terrors to a sign of both earthly and divine power. This chapter uses a rich array of Islamic images, many never before published. This chapter concludes the iconographic study of this quintessential feature of the KMMS maps.
Keywords: Bahr al-Muhit, Qur’an, Hadith, Sufism, JabalQaf, Pillars of Hercules, al-Mas’udi, Metapictures, Ka’ba, Hilya
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