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The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road

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Acknowledgments Contributors Transliterations and Conventions List of Illustrations and Maps Foreword - Lorenz Hurni Preface: What Is a Map? - Valerie Hansen INTRODUCTION - Philippe Foret and Andreas Kaplony PART I: THE BUDDHIST ROAD 1 Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty Iconography: Questions and Hypotheses - Nicolas Zufferey 2 Visualizing Pilgrimage and Mapping Experience: Mount Wutai on the Silk Road - Natasha Heller 3 The Mapping of Sacred Space: Images of Buddhist Cosmographies in Medieval China - Dorothy C. Wong PART II: THE MONGOL ROAD 4 Lost in Translation: Gridded Plans and Maps along the Silk Road - Jonathan Bloom 5 Square Horoscope Diagrams in Middle Eastern Astrology and Chinese Cosmological Diagrams: Were These Designs Transmitted through the Silk Road? - Johannes Thomann 6 The Intrusion of East Asian Imagery in Thirteenth-Century Armenia: Political and Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Road - Dickran Kouymjian PART III: WITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD 7 Comparing al-Kashghari's Map to His Text: On the Visual Language, Purpose, and Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Maps - Andreas Kaplony 8 The Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the East - Yossef Rapoport PART IV: THE MEDITERRANEAN ROAD 9 Celestial Maps and Illustrations in Arabic-Islamic Astronomy - Paul Kunitzsch 10 Revisiting Catalan Portolan Charts: Do They Contain Elements of Asian Provenance? - Sonja Brentjes CONCLUSION - Philippe Foret and Andreas Kaplony Appendix: List of Geographical Nomenclature in al-Kashghari's Text and Map - Andreas Kaplony General Bibliography Index


Acknowledgments Contributors Transliterations and Conventions List of Illustrations and Maps Foreword - Lorenz Hurni Preface: What Is a Map? - Valerie Hansen INTRODUCTION - Philippe Foret and Andreas Kaplony PART I: THE BUDDHIST ROAD 1 Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty Iconography: Questions and Hypotheses - Nicolas Zufferey 2 Visualizing Pilgrimage and Mapping Experience: Mount Wutai on the Silk Road - Natasha Heller 3 The Mapping of Sacred Space: Images of Buddhist Cosmographies in Medieval China - Dorothy C. Wong PART II: THE MONGOL ROAD 4 Lost in Translation: Gridded Plans and Maps along the Silk Road - Jonathan Bloom 5 Square Horoscope Diagrams in Middle Eastern Astrology and Chinese Cosmological Diagrams: Were These Designs Transmitted through the Silk Road? - Johannes Thomann 6 The Intrusion of East Asian Imagery in Thirteenth-Century Armenia: Political and Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Road - Dickran Kouymjian PART III: WITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD 7 Comparing al-Kashghari's Map to His Text: On the Visual Language, Purpose, and Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Maps - Andreas Kaplony 8 The Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the East - Yossef Rapoport PART IV: THE MEDITERRANEAN ROAD 9 Celestial Maps and Illustrations in Arabic-Islamic Astronomy - Paul Kunitzsch 10 Revisiting Catalan Portolan Charts: Do They Contain Elements of Asian Provenance? - Sonja Brentjes CONCLUSION - Philippe Foret and Andreas Kaplony Appendix: List of Geographical Nomenclature in al-Kashghari's Text and Map - Andreas Kaplony General Bibliography Index


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VerlagBrill
EinbandFester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr2008
Seitenangabe280 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH24.4 cm x B16.5 cm x D2.0 cm 680 g
AutorForêt, Philippe (Hrsg.) / Kaplony, Andreas (Hrsg.)

Über den Autor Philippe (Hrsg.) Forêt

Philippe Forêt, Ph.D. (1992) in Geography, University of Chicago, is a Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich and an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Mapping Chengde (Honolulu, 2000) and La véritable histoire d'une montagne plus haute que l'Himalaya (Paris, 2004), and the coeditor of La Haute-Asie telle qu'ils l'ont vue (Geneva, 2003) and New Qing Imperial History (London, 2004).Andreas Kaplony, Dr. (1986) in History and Arabic studies and Habilitation (2001) in Islamic studies, both from the University of Zurich, is an Assistant Professor at the Oriental Institute, University of Zurich. He is the author of Konstantinopel und Damaskus: Gesandtschaften und Verträge zwischen Kaisern und Kalifen 639-750(Berlin, 1996) and The Ḥaram of Jerusalem 324-1099 (Freiburg i.Br., 2002), and the coeditor of the Arabic Papyrology Database (www.ori.uzh.ch/apd) (2006) and Documentary Letters from the Middle East: The Evidence in Greek, Coptic, South Arabian, Pehlevi, and Arabic (1st-15th c CE) (Berne, 2008).

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