Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds : Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia.
This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.
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Cambridge University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Timeline; Glossary of Chinese Characters; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; China and the Islamic World: Connected by Land and Sea; Source Materials; Geographic Accounts; Maps; Archaeological Evidence; The Growth of Geographic Knowledge in Three Phases; 1 From Imperial Encounter to Maritime Trade: Chinese Understanding of the Islamic World, 750-1260; Introduction; Early Contacts and the First Direct Accounts.
- Maritime Traffic between the Islamic World and the Tang (618-907) China and Jia Dan's RoutesThe Wider World in Surviving Chinese Maps; The Maritime Trade and the Islamic World in Maritime Literature in the Song Dynasty (960-1260); Conclusion; 2 The Representation of China and the World: Islamic Knowledge about China, 750-1260; The Earliest Arabic Geographic Accounts about China and the Indian Ocean; China and the World in Surviving Maps and Geographic Works in the Late 'Abbāsid Period (circa 934-1260); Conclusion.
- 3 Interpreting the Mongol World: Chinese Understanding of the Islamic World, 1260-1368Expanded Chinese Knowledge about the Islamic World through the Mongol Conquest of China and Iran; The Expanded Chinese Knowledge about the Islamic World Reflected in Extant Maps; Expanded Chinese Knowledge about the Islamic World through Increased Maritime Contacts; Conclusion; 4 Beyond Marco Polo: Islamic Knowledge about China, 1260-1368; Expanded Geographic Knowledge about China under the Mongol-Ruled Il-Khanate (1260-1335); Knowledge of China in Mamlūk Syria and Egypt.
- Muslim Trade Networks and China as Reflected in the Travelogue of Ibn BattūtaConclusion; 5 Legacy from Half the Globe before 1492: Chinese Understanding of the Islamic World and Islamic Knowledge about China, 1368-1500; Political Changes, Foreign Relations, and Geographic Knowledge of the World during the Early Ming Dynasty; Chinese Learning about the Islamic World that Resulted from the Seven Voyages of Zheng He from 1405 to 1433; Political Changes and a Synthesis of Muslim Knowledge of China Immediately Following the Mongol Period.
- Muslim Navigation before the Coming of the Portuguese to the Indian OceanConclusion; Conclusion: Lessons from Pre-modern Sino-Islamic Contact; Political Conflict Leads to Commercial and Cultural Exchange; Direct Transmission of Information in the Integrated World under Mongol Rule; The Increasing Spread of World Geographic Knowledge; The Influence of the Asian Geographic Knowledge on the Rise of the Europeans; Toward a Multi-centered Model of World History; Notes; Introduction; 1. From Imperial Encounter to Maritime Trade; 2. The Representation of China and the World.
