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Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination

Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination AL-MASĀQ 2019, VOL. 31, NO. 1, 111–127 BOOK REVIEWS Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination, by Tarek Kahlaoui, 2018, [Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section One, the Near and Middle East, volume CXIX], Leiden: Brill, xv + 353 pp., €136.00/US$156.00 (hardback), ISBN 9789004347380 In recent years there have been a series of major publications on the history of the Mediterra- nean including The Corrupting Sea by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell and also the Great Sea by David Abulafia. These works in turn have built upon or challenged previous studies such as those by Henri Pirenne and Fernand Braudel. Within such theses, a longstanding research topic centres on the question of how contemporaries from various periods have under- stood, defined and perceived the Mediterranean region. This is an important question and this present work, Creating the Mediterranean, sets out to explore Islamic perspectives on these themes, considering how Muslim commentators perceived the Mediterranean and how atti- tudes changed over time (in a study spanning from the early history of Islam through to the six- teenth century). The evidence base for this study consists of cartographic sources (including many that have received little or no former study) as well http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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AL-MASĀQ 2019, VOL. 31, NO. 1, 111–127 BOOK REVIEWS Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination, by Tarek Kahlaoui, 2018, [Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section One, the Near and Middle East, volume CXIX], Leiden: Brill, xv + 353 pp., €136.00/US$156.00 (hardback), ISBN 9789004347380 In recent years there have been a series of major publications on the history of the Mediterra- nean including The Corrupting Sea by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell and also...
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AL-MASĀQ 2019, VOL. 31, NO. 1, 111–127 BOOK REVIEWS Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination, by Tarek Kahlaoui, 2018, [Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section One, the Near and Middle East, volume CXIX], Leiden: Brill, xv + 353 pp., €136.00/US$156.00 (hardback), ISBN 9789004347380 In recent years there have been a series of major publications on the history of the Mediterra- nean including The Corrupting Sea by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell and also the Great Sea by David Abulafia. These works in turn have built upon or challenged previous studies such as those by Henri Pirenne and Fernand Braudel. Within such theses, a longstanding research topic centres on the question of how contemporaries from various periods have under- stood, defined and perceived the Mediterranean region. This is an important question and this present work, Creating the Mediterranean, sets out to explore Islamic perspectives on these themes, considering how Muslim commentators perceived the Mediterranean and how atti- tudes changed over time (in a study spanning from the early history of Islam through to the six- teenth century). The evidence base for this study consists of cartographic sources (including many that have received little or no former study) as well

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