Description
Knowledge of mapmaking and geography moved around and across the Mediterranean between European states and the Ottoman and Byzantine empires. Indeed, the revolution in Early Modern mapmaking in Europe relied on the transmission and translation of Ptolemaic texts from Byzantium to Florence. In turn, Islamic mapmakers and geographers spent centuries processing similar texts and maps with dramatically different results. In this workshop, we will trace the production, circulation, and consumption processes of medieval and early modern mapmaking in the Muslim World, especially its similarities and differences with European mapping in the same period. Participants will be able to obtain a better understanding of Islamic mapping practices and follow the changing patterns of mathematical and instrumental techniques that undergirded competing views of the world.