ProjectSpatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600. The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text

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Title:
Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600. The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text
Duration:
30/03/2017 to 01/04/2017
Abstract / short description:
How have place and space been conceived by writers and mapmakers in Islamicate parts of the world? Questioning the notion of genres, the conference explores the ways how spatial thought was entangled with political, religious, cultural, and intellectual history. The aim is to envisage a diversely linked spatial history, with new relevance for the study of Islamicate societies.
Keywords:
cartography
Kartographie
Islam
Islam
history of science
Wissenschaftsgeschichte
geography
Geographie
medieval times
Mittelalter
social history
Gesellschaftsgeschichte

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Managers

Oriental and Islamic Studies Section
Department of Asian and Oriental Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Local organizational units

Oriental and Islamic Studies Section
Department of Asian and Oriental Studies
Faculty of Humanities

Funders

Paris, Île-de-France, France
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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