The Arabic Writing Tradition, an Historical Survey, Volume 10

Mathematical Geography and Cartography in Islam and Their Legacy in the West
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71301-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 167.10, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East / The Arabic Writing Tradition: An Historical Survey

For over sixty years, Professor Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the literary and scientific writings and achievements of Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sezgin, Fuat

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lameer, Joep

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Transliteration and Abbreviations

Chapter I A. The Current State of Research B. The Origins of Mathematical Geography C. Mathematical Geography in the Transitional Period Between the Greeks and the Arabs D. The Beginnings of Mathematical Geography in the Islamic World E. Post-Ma?munian Developments in Geographical Localisation in the 3rd/9th and 4th/10th Centuries F. Geographical Localisation from the 5th/11th to the 7th/13th Century G. The Further Development of Geographical Coordinate Tables in the Centre and East of the Islamic World

Chapter II A. The Legacy of Arabic Geography in the West B. Coordinate Tables Created in Europe in the 14th and 15th Centuries, Following Arabic Models C. Ptolemy’s Geography in Europe

Chapter III A. Arabic Influence on the Emergence of the New Map Type in Europe B. The Cartographic Representation of Asia C. The Cartographic Representation of the Indian Ocean

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fuat Sezgin (1924–2018, Ph.D. Istanbul, 1951), a renowned Turkish orientalist and historian of science, was Professor Emeritus of the History of Natural Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and the founder and long-term director of the Institute of the History of the Arab-Islamic Sciences at that university. He also established Frankfurt’s (1983) and Istanbul’s (2008) Museum for the History of Science and Technology in Islam, bringing together nearly 800 ingenious replicas of historical scientific instruments and medical tools. His best-known publication is Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums, a systematically organised bio-bibliographical reference in seventeen volumes on the history of science and technology in the Islamic world. Being a literary history in the broadest sense of the word, this magnum opus dedicates a large part of its focus to the history of science and technology in the Islamic world.

Joep Lameer (Ph.D. Leiden, 1992) specialises in Islamic philosophy and logic. Proficient in Persian and Arabic, he has a passion for philology and codicology, publishing books and scholarly articles, some of them jointly with young and upcoming scholars from Iran. A resident of Tehran for several years, he was awarded the Iranian Book of the Year Prize in 2010 for a study on the epistemology of Mulla Sadra (17th cent.). Doing much to promote Iranian scholarship outside Iran, he was actively involved in Brill’s publication of the Miras Maktoob Persian e-book Collection some years ago.