Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100-1500

Alfred Hiatt, PhD (1999), Cambridge, is Professor of Medieval Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications on maps and spatial representation include Dislocations: Maps, Classical Tradition, and Spatial Play in the European Middle Ages (PIMS, 2020).

"This compact and informative edited volume of six chapters contributes greatly to our understanding of comparative cartography in the later Middle Ages." – Zayde Antrim, in: Der Islam, vol. 99, no. 2 (2022). "Kartographische Untersuchungen werden (...). Dennoch bringt dieser schmale Band – introduction, conclusion und sechs Kapitel, von denen zwei vom Herausgeber stammen – wichtiges Neues." – Felicitas Schmieder Historisches Institut, Fern Universität in Hagen, in: H-Soz-Kult, 14 December 2022

• Introduction: Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic WorldAlfred Hiatt1 The Transmission of Theoretical Geography: Maps of the Climata and the Reception of De causis Proprietatum ElementorumAlfred Hiatt2 Ptolemy’s Geography in the Arabic-Islamic ContextJean-Charles Ducène3 The Transmission of Celestial Cartography from the Arabic-Islamic World to Europe: The Celestial Maps in MS Schoenberg ljs 057Elly Dekker4 Geography at the Crossroads: The Nuzhat ­al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq of al-IdrīsīAlfred Hiatt5 Transitional” or “Transcultural” Maps? The Function and Impact of Arabic-Islamic Elements in Latin Christian Cartography of the Early Fourteenth CenturyStefan Schröder6 Pluricultural Sources of the Catalan AtlasEmmanuelle VagnonConclusion: Divergent TraditionsAlfred Hiatt and Yossef RapoportBibliographyIndex