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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 27 August 2012

This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 27 August 2012

Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2021

In China there are up to 25 million Muslims living in the country, representing over 1200 years of Chinese-Islamic relations. However, little is known about the historical and contemporary geopolitical relations between

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 38,8 Mb
• Release Date : 13 February 2019

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World—the world’s first “global economy”—from a longue durée perspective. Spanning

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2016

Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 24 October 2022

This study reproduces and describes, for the first time, all the maps of China printed in Europe between 1584 and 1735, unravelling the origin of each individual map, their different printing, issues

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 09 April 2015

The most comprehensive account yet of the human past from prehistory to the present.

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 30 May 2016

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 13 May 2016

For over a millennium, Asia and the Middle East have been closely connected through maritime activities and trade, a flourishing relationship that has given rise to new and thriving societies

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 23 September 2021

This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial,