Title Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds : Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages) 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 Summary This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Discoveries in geography -- History -- To 1500 Cartography -- History -- To 1500 Islamic civilization. Cartography Civilization Discoveries in geography International relations SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- 960-1644. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023995 China -- Relations -- Islamic Empire Islamic Empire -- Relations -- China Subject China Islamic Empire Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012015544 ISBN 9781139528467 1139528467 1107018684 9781107018686 1139530747 9781139530743 9781139088329 1139088327 9781107547834 1107547830

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