The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Geography and Religious Knowledge 1
4. Part I: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin- Christian Geography
5. It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, it’s the World! 39
6. The T-O Diagram and its Religious Connotations 57
7. Part II: Compiling Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas
8. Ordering and Reading the World 85
9. The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’ 109
10. Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions 141
11. Part III: Presenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms
12. The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from around 1500 163
13. The Culmination of Islamic Sacred Geography 179
14. Religious Knowledge within Changing Cartographical Worldviews 189
15. Part IV: Depicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps
16. When Religious Geography meets the Geography of Humanists 223
17. The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience 247
18. Getting There by Manipulating the Medium 273
19. Note on Contributors 303
20. Index 307