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holds مختصر كتاب المسالك والممالك لابي اسحاق ابراهيم بن محمد الاصطخري / World map in a summary of Kitab al-masalik wa’l mamalik, MS Or. 3101, 1193. The maps are sometimes called the "Atlas of Islam", or abbreviated as KMMS maps. This tradition of mapping appears in related works including
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depiction of physical boundaries. With little change in design, the treatises typically offer twenty regional maps and a disc-shaped map of the world surrounded by the Encircling Ocean. The maps have a flat quality, but the textual component implies a spherical Earth. Andalusi scholar
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stages. Their text covers the cities, roads, topography, and peoples of the Muslim world, interspersed with personal anecdotes. A theoretical explanation of the "Inhabited Quarter" of the world, comparable to the
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explained, "Their objective is the depiction of the earth, even if it does not correspond to reality. Because the earth is spherical but the is simple".
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The books include illustrations so geometric that they are barely recognizable as maps. These schematic maps do not attempt a
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Casale, Giancarlo (2019). "Did Alexander the Great Discover America? Debating Space and Time in Renaissance Istanbul".
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composed from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. They emerged from the administrative tradition of listing
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Also translated "Highways and Kingdoms", "Routes and Kingdoms", "Routes and Countries", "Routes and Realms", etc.
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by al-Istakhri (restored in 2018, Persian translation dated to the 14-15th century CE)
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circa 950 CE, although only copies by later artists survive. As he was a follower of
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Ibn Hawqal's world map (South at top, copy dated to the 14th century)
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Istakhri's world map (South at top, copy dated to 1193)
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Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world
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depicted as an island (West at top, copy dated to 1173)
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Arabia
al-Istakhri
Arabic
Islamic manuscripts
pilgrim
post
ecumene
climes
mimetic
Abi Bakr Zuhri
earliest surviving version
Ibn Khordadbeh
Abbasid
al-Wathiq
al-Mu'tamid
al-Istakhri
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
Leiden University Libraries
Ibn Hawqal
Book of Roads and Kingdoms
Ibn Khordadbeh
Book of Roads and Kingdoms
ru
Istakhri
Book of Roads and Kingdoms
al-Bakri
Book of Roads and Kingdoms
ru
Ibn Hawqal

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