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The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road
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- Creator
- edited by Philippe Forêt, Andreas Kaplony
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xxxi, 243 pages, 31 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789047424970, 9047424972, 9789004171657, 9786612400476, 9004171657, 1282400479
- OCLC
- ocn568279384, ocn244058907
- One folded plate of col. maps inserted.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-229) and index.
- Foreword / Lorenz Hurni -- Preface : what is a map? / Valerie Hansen -- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty iconography : questions and hypotheses / Nicolas Zufferey -- Visualizing pilgrimage and mapping experience : Mount Wutai on the Silk Road / Natasha Heller -- The mapping of sacred space : images of Buddhist cosmographies in medieval China / Dorothy C. Wong -- Lost in translation : gridded plans and maps along the Silk Road / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Square horoscope diagrams in Middle Eastern astrology and Chinese cosmological diagrams : were these designs transmitted through the Silk Road? / Johannes Thomann -- The intrusion of East Asian imagery in thirteenth-century Armenia : political and cultural exchange along the Silk Road / Dickran Kouymjian -- Comparing al-Kāshgharī's map to his text : on the visual language, purpose, and transmission of Arabic-Islamic maps / Andreas Kaplony -- The Book of curiosities : a medieval Islamic view of the East / Yossef Rapoport -- Celestial maps and illustrations in Arabic-Islamic astronomy / Paul Kunitzsch -- Revisiting Catalan portolan charts : do they contain elements of Asian provenance? / Sonja Brentjes -- Conclusion / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Appendix. List of geographical nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī's text and map / Andreas Kaplony