Lost maps of the caliphs : drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo /

About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as...

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Main Authors: Rapoport, Yossef, 1968- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Savage-Smith, Emilie (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018
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