The Muslim Geographical Image of the World in the Middle Ages: A Source Study Ahmad Nazmi and Sheila Kozieradzka
This book deals with the Muslim Geographical Image and ideas of the world. The main purpose of this study is to present the Muslim image of the world from the geographical point of view through the major Muslim geographical sources of the Middle Ages. The activity of the early Islamic scholars in the field of geography, cosmography, and astronomy is known to us not only through their original works that have reached us, but also through the mass of studies, surveys, and editions which were made by recent scholars, especially by orientalists. The author’s aim is also to explore the links between Muslim thought in general and the geographical data to form an idea about how the Muslims integrated Islamic and geographical concepts to create a general and unified image of the world.The sources ...
