An Ottoman Cosmography

Translation of Cihānnümā
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72962-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 142, 694 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 1969 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

Autoren/Hrsg.

Çelebi, K&

Çelebi, Katib

Hagen, Gottfried

Dankoff, Robert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Csirkés, Ferenc

Curry, John

Leiser, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

References and Abbreviations

Outline of Cihannüma

Introduction to Cihannüma

Gottfried Hagen

Introduction to the Translation

Robert Dankoff

Translation of Cihannüma

Part 1, by Katib Çelebi

Ferenc Csirkés, John Curry and Gary Leiser

Introduction

1 On the Earth

2 On the Seas

3 On the Major Parts of the Earth

4 On the Continent of Europe

5 On (the Continent of) Africa

6 On the Continent of Asia

7 On (the Continent of) America, i.e., the New World

8 On 90 Latitude

9 On the South Pole

10 On the Relation of Countries and Directions, According to the Triplicities of the Constellations and Planets

11 On the Inhabitants of the World with Respect to Religions

12 Island of Yapunia (Iaponia, Japan)

13 Map of (New) Guinea

14 Islands of Chin u Hind (East Indies)

15 Islands of Gilolo and Molucca

16 Mindanao, etc.

17 Sumatra

18 Borneo

19 Island of Ceylon

20 Clime of Chin u Machin (China)

21 Clime of Khitay (Cathay)

22 Clime of India

23 Clime of Sind

24 Country of Makran

25 Clime of Zabulistan, Khwast and Ashnaghar

26 Country of Kashmir and Tibet

27 Country of Sijistan

28 Country of Badakhshan, Ghur and ?ukharistan

29 Clime of Kirman, Hormuz and Lar

30 Clime of Fars

31 Country of Khuzistan and Luristan

32 Clime of Jabal (i.e., Jibal) or Persian Iraq

33 Clime of Khurasan and Quhistan

34 Country of Qumis, ?abaristan and Mazandaran

35 Clime of Khwarazm, Daylam and Gilan

36 Clime of Transoxiana

37 Clime of Turkistan and the Steppe

38 Clime of Azerbaijan

39 Clime of Arran, Muqan and Shirwan

40 Country of Dagestan, Georgia, etc.

41 Clime of Arminiyya

Part 2, by Ebu Bekr b. Behram ed-Dimas?i

Gary Leiser

42 Clime of al-Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia)

43 Clime of ?Iraq al-?Arab (Lower Mesopotamia)

44 Description of the Arabian Peninsula

45 Region of Sham (Syria)

46 Description of (Province of) Ana?oli

Appendix: Maps and Diagrams

About Maps and Diagrams

Maps and Diagrams

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gottfried Hagen (PhD Freie Universität Berlin, 1996) is Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Ein Osmanischer Geograph bei der Arbeit. Entstehung und Gedankenwelt von Katib Celebis Gihannüma (2003, Turkish translation 2017) and many articles on Ottoman geography, cartography, and cosmology.


Robert Dankoff (PhD Harvard University, 1971) is Professor Emeritus of Turkish and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago. His most recent book is Ottoman Explorations of the Nile (2018, with Nuran Tezcan and Michael D. Sheridan).