Kartographie im islamischen Kulturraum

berühmte Seekarte des Osmanen Piri Reis,
mit Teilen Amerikas, 16. Jh.

Ich habe vor einiger Zeit etwas sehr schönes im Netz gefunden, was ich euch hier nicht vorenthalten möchte. Ein kostenloses Ebook der University of Chicago Press über Kartographie im islamischen Kulturraum von 1992.

Beschreibung:

The first book of volume 2 of the monumental History of Cartography focuses on mapping in non-Western cultures, an area of study traditionally overlooked by Western scholars. Extensive original research makes this the foremost source for defining, describing, and analyzing this vast and unexplored theater of cartographic history. Book 1 offers a critical synthesis of maps, mapmaking, and mapmakers in the Islamic world and South Asia.

Ein Ausschnitt aus der Einleitung:

One objective of The History of Cartography is to redefine and expand the canon of early maps. The corpus of maps (or map types)  described in the previous literature on the history of cartography appears to us today unduly restricted  and  unnecessarily  exclusive.  It  was  based  on assumptions that narrowed its scope and rendered it unrepresentative  of the  richness  of mapping  across  the  historical  civilizations  of  the  world  as  a  whole.  "Maps" meant, in that literature, primarily terrestrial maps, so that star maps, cosmographical maps, and imagined maps, for example, were generally excluded as ways  of seeing the world.  With  the  notable  exception  of the  inclusion  of China,  cartographic  history  was  pictured  as  largely  a Greco-Roman  invention  or  was  narrated,  for  the  later periods (the sixteenth century onward), as an accompaniment to the "miracle" of expanding European technology.  Even  within  the  core  of  accredited  cartography, pride of place was given to the history of mathematically constructed-"scientific"-maps,  so  that  the  history  of maps could culminate in the "scale" maps of the modern age and fit the notion of "progress" from a primitive past to a state of modern enlightenment. ...

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"[The six-volume set] is certain to be the standard reference for all subsequent scholarship. The editors . . . have assembled and analyzed a vast collection of knowledge. . . . If the first volume is an indication, the complete set will be comprehensive and judicious." —John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review"As well as enlarging the mind and lifting the spirits through the sheer magnitude of its endeavor, the collection delights the senses. The illustrations are exquisite: browsing fingers will instinctively alight on the sheaf of maps produced on stock slightly thicker than that of the text. The maps are so beguiling in the tantalizing glimpses they offer of other, seemingly incomprehensible, worlds, that the sight of them will stir the connoisseur in even the most-guarded scholar." —Ronald Rees, Geographical Review

"The corpus it brings to light, along with the extensive references, bibliography, and exhaustive appendices containing valuable comments about many of the pieces discussed, together make this book an important resource for the scholar."—Robert Provin, Professional Geographer

"This volume is a landmark of new research and will certainly contribute to further discoveries, translations, interpretations, inventories, more precise dating and the construction of stemmata." —Christian Jacob, Cartographica

"In seeking to characterize the cartography of premodern Islamic and south Asian societies, the editors offer the image of an archipelago of cartographically conscious islands in a silent sea. The research potential which they have revealed is clearly vast and underappreciated, with many islands still to be discovered or enlarged. This important book, does more, therefore, than plug a huge gap in cartographic historiography. It provides the foundation for crosscultural cartographic research in two major world regions."-Jeffrey Stone, Ecumene

 

Volume Two, Book One

Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies

Edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward

• Front Matter
  
• Gallery of Color Illustrations (Plates 1–24)
• Gallery of Color Illustrations (Plates 25–40)
• Preface J. B. Harley and David Woodward
  
• Part One - Islamic Cartography
  
• Chapter 1. Introduction to Islamic Maps Ahmet T. Karamustafa
• Chapter 2. Celestial Mapping Emilie Savage-Smith
• Chapter 3. Cosmographical Diagrams Ahmet T. Karamustafa
  
• Early Geographical Mapping
  
• Chapter 4. The Beginnings of a Cartographic Tradition Gerald R. Tibbetts
• Chapter 5. The Balkhi School of Geographers Gerald R. Tibbetts
• Chapter 6. Later Cartographic Developments Gerald R. Tibbetts
• Chapter 7. Cartography of al-Sharif al-Idrisi S. Maqbul Ahmad
• Chapter 8. Geodesy Raymond P. Mercier
• Chapter 9. Qibla Charts, Qubla Maps, and Related Instruments David A. King and Richard P. Lorch
  
• Premodern Ottoman Geographical Mapping
  
• Chapter 10. Introduction to Ottoman Cartography Ahmet T. Karamustafa
• Chapter 11. Military, Administrative, and Scholarly Maps and Plans Ahmet T. Karamustafa
• Chapter 12. Itineraries and Town Views in Ottoman Histories J. M. Rogers
  
• Marine Charting
  
• Chapter 13. The Role of Charts in Islamic Navigation in the Indian Ocean Gerald R. Tibbetts
• Chapter 14. Islamic Charting in the Mediterranean Svat Soucek
  
• Part Two - South Asian Cartography
  
• Chapter 15. Introduction to South Asian Cartography Joseph E. Schwartzberg
• Chapter 16. Cosmographical Mapping Joseph E. Schwartzberg
• Chapter 17. Geographical Mapping Joseph E. Schwartzberg
• Chapter 18. Nautical Maps Joseph E. Schwartzberg
• Chapter 19. Conclusion Joseph E. Schwartzberg
• Chapter 20. Concluding Remarks J. B. Harley and David Woodward

Editors, Authors, and Project Staff
Bibliographical Index
General Index
Ellen D. Goldlust, Scholars Editorial Services


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