Editor: Christoph Mauntel (University of Tübingen)
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2021 – Open Access
In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail.
This volume addresses this desideratum and combines case studies from both traditions of geographic thinking. The contributions comprise in-depth analyses of individual geographical works as for example those of al-Idrisi or Lambert of Saint-Omer, different forms of presenting geographical knowledge such as TO-diagrams or globes as well as performative aspects of studying and meditating geographical knowledge.
Focussing on texts as well as on maps, the contributions open up a comparative perspective on how religious knowledge influenced the way the world and its geography were perceived and described int the medieval world.
Contents
| Frontmatter |
| Contents |
| Geography and Religious Knowledge – Christoph Mauntel |
| It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, it’s the World! – Karen C. Pinto |
| The T-O Diagram and its Religious Connotations – Christoph Mauntel |
| Ordering and Reading the World – Nathalie Bouloux |
| The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’ – Kurt Franz |
| Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions – Jean-Charles Ducène |
| The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from around 1500 – Felicitas Schmieder |
| The Culmination of Islamic Sacred Geography – David A. King |
| Religious Knowledge within Changing Cartographical Worldviews – Stefan Schröder |
| When Religious Geography meets the Geography of Humanists – Emmanuelle Vagnon |
| The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience – Ingrid Baumgärtner and Eva Ferro |
| Getting There by Manipulating the Medium – Raoul Marc Etienne Du Bois |
| Note on Contributors |
| Index |
Source: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110686159/html