Intro; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; Introduction; The Image of the Mediterranean and the Braudelean-Pirennean Narratives; The Significance of the Image of the Mediterranean in Art History; Cartography and Art: A Theoretical Frame; Part 1 The Formation of the Mediterranean in the Islamic Imagination; Chapter 1 Imagination and Myths; The Mediterranean in Arabic; Defining Baḥr al-Rūm; The Myths of the Mediterranean; Chapter 2 The Early Medieval Cartographic Representations of the Mediterranean; The Geography of Itineraries and the Pre-history of the Image of the Mediterranean
Delimiting the Mediterranean as Viewed by MuslimsChapter 3 Redefining the "Atlas of Islam" School: Two Diverse Traditions Depicting the Mediterranean; The "Regional" Textual Context of the "Atlas of Islam" Maps of the Mediterranean; The "Atlas of Islam" School: Texts vs. Maps; Comparative Cartography and the Transmission of the "Atlas of Islam" Maps of the Mediterranean; The Iṣṭakhrian vs. the Ḥawqalian Traditions in the "Atlas of Islam" School; On Interpreting the Stylistic Cartographic Approaches to the Mediterranean; The Cartographic Perceptions That Define the Mediterranean
Part 2 The Mediterranean of the Maghribi Geographers and Cartographers from the Fifth/Eleventh to the Ninth/Fifteenth CenturyChapter 4 The Increase in Maritime Sources in the Maghribi Islamic Geography of the Mediterranean (Fourth/Tenth to the Fifth/Eleventh Century); The Rise of the North African Geographers and Their Approach to the Mediterranean; Byzantine Sources for the Mediterranean from the Perspective of a Late Fatimid Geographer; Chapter 5 The Idrisian Mediterranean Mapping (Sixth/Twelfth to the Ninth/Fifteenth Century)
The Idrisian "Mediterranean Islamic" Cartography: Redefining the Idrisian Corpus: Idrisian Mapping as a Mediterranean ProjectThe Mediterranean in the Idrisian Geographic and Cartographic Representations; The Idrisian Legacy: Mediterranean Mediators of the "Idrisian" Mediterranean; Ibn Khaldūn and the Transmission of "Idrisian" Mapping in the Ninth-/Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean; Part 3 The Image of the Mediterranean in Islamic Maritime Cartography (Eighth-/Fourteenth to the Tenth/Sixteenth Century)
Chapter 6 The Maghribi-Andalusian Maritime Cartography: The Mediterranean of the Andalusian Sea CaptainsThe Formation of a Maghribi School of Maritime Cartography (Eighth/Fourteenth to the Ninth/Fifteenth Century); The Sharfī Family: Maghribi Mapping in the Tenth/Sixteenth Century; Chapter 7 The Imperial Ottoman Mediterranean and the Transmission of the Tenth-/Sixteenth-Century Mapping of the Mediterranean; Ottoman Maritime Cartography: The Mediterranean as an Imperial Ottoman Image; Maghribi-Ottoman Maritime Mapping: Originality and Cartographic Transmission; Conclusion; Appendix
