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