The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. |
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| Description: | xxxi, 243 p. : ill., pl. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Map Book Print |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7468961 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Transliterations and Conventions
- Illustrations and Map
- Color Section
- Foreword
- Preface: What is a Map?
- Introduction
- Part I. The Buddhist Road
- Chapter 1. Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty Iconography: Questions and Hypotheses
- Chapter 2. Visualizing Pilgrimage and Mapping Experience: Mount Wutai on the Silk Road
- Chapter 3. The Mapping of Sacred Space: Images of Buddhist Cosmographies in Medieval China
- Part II. The Mongol Road
- Chapter 4. Lost in Translation: Gridded Plans and Maps along the Silk Road
- Chapter 5. Square Horoscope Diagrams in Middle Eastern Astrology and Chinese Cosmological Diagrams: Were These Designs Transmitted through the Silk Road?
- Chapter 6. The Intrusion of East Asian Imagery in Thirteenth-Century Armenia: Political and Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road
- Part III. Within the Islamic World
- Chapter 7. Comparing al-Kashghari's Map to his Text: On the Visual Language, Purpose, and Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Maps
- Chapter 8. The Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the East
- Part IV. The Mediterranean Road
- Chapter 9. Celestial Maps and Illustrations in Arabic-Islamic Astronomy
- Chapter 10. Revisiting Catalan Portolan Charts: Do They Contain Elements of Asian Provenance?
- Conclusion
- Appendix. List of Geographical Nomenclature in al-Kashghari's Text and Map
- General Bibliography
- Index
