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Illustrated Ottoman Cosmographies, C. 1550-1700: The World Through Muslim Eyes
Hardcover
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Art HistoryMiddle Eastern ArtTurkey & Ottoman Empire History
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ISBN13: 9781399543873
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jun 30 2025
Pages: 448
Weight: 2.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
This book explores the unprecedented Ottoman interest in illustrated cosmographies and their representation of the world and its inhabitants. It analyses fifteen illustrated manuscripts of four cosmographical texts on the Old and New Worlds (in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish) produced in the capital Istanbul and the Ottoman provinces of Egypt, Syria and Baghdad, c. 1550-1700.
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