INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Transliteration and Abbreviations xx
5. Series Editor’s Foreword xxii
6. Acknowledgements xxiii
7. INTRODUCTION 1
8. CHAPTER 1 Illustrated Cosmographies in Islamic Lands, 1280–c. 1850 7
9. CHAPTER 2 Popular Medicine and Holy Geography: Ṭūsī’s ‘Ajā’ib in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century 100
10. CHAPTER 3 Second Solomon: Sultan Süleyman as the World Sovereign in Frontispieces of Qazwīnī’s ‘Ajā’ib, c. 1565–6 176
11. CHAPTER 4 Portraits and Genealogies of the Ottoman Sultans in Seventeenth-century Manuscripts of Qazwīnī’s ‘Ajā’ib 212
12. CHAPTER 5 The ‘Other’ in Qazwīnī’s ‘Ajā’ib: The Jew, the Orthodox Christian and the European 244
13. CHAPTER 6 A New Ottoman Cosmography on the Old World: Ibn Zunbul’s Qānūn al-dunyā, 1563 275
14. CHAPTER 7 Fauna and People of the New World in Su‘ūdī’s Ḥadīs-i nev, 1583–c. 1600 327
15. Appendix A Illustrated Ottoman Cosmographies Discussed by Chapter 364
16. Appendix B Frontispieces in ‘Ajā’ib Manuscripts 368
17. Bibliography 371
18. Index 407