Illustrated Ottoman Cosmographies, c. 1550–1700
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'Aj'ib al-makhlqt (Wonder of Creation)
'Aj?'ib al-makhl?q?t (Wonder of Creation)
'Aja'ib al-makhluqat (Wonder of Creation)
16th-century cross-cultural art
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Cosmography
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European prints
Genealogy of the Ottoman sultans
Hadis-i nev (Book of the New Climatic Zone)
Hads-i nev (Book of the New Climatic Zone)
Holy geography
Ibn Zunbul
Illustrated manuscripts
Islamic art
Islamic manuscripts
Islamic painting
li-maghribih (The Order of the World and Its
Mehmed ibn Emir Hasan al-Su'd
Mehmed ibn Emir Hasan al-Su'udi
Mu?ammad al-??s?
Muammad al-s
Muhammad al-Tusi
Murad III
Ottoman illustrated manuscripts
Q?n?n al-duny? wa-'aj?'ibih? min mashriqih? li-maghribih? (The Order of the World and Its Wonders from East to West)
Qanun al-dunya wa-'aja'ibiha min mashriqiha li-maghribiha (The Order of the World and Its Wonders from East to West)
Qnn al-duny wa-'aj'ibih min mashriqih
Sleyman the Magnificent
Suleyman the Magnificent
The 'other'
Wonders from East to West)
Zakariyy al-Qazwn
Zakariyy? al-Qazw?n?
Zakariyya al-Qazwini
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- ISBN 9781399543873
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Overall, dozens of richly illustrated cosmographies were copied across the span of six hundred years, from the late thirteenth until the nineteenth century, in different artistic centres and by different political entities in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and India. This study points to an unprecedented and unparalleled production of illustrated cosmographies in the Ottoman period, in particular during the second half of the sixteenth century. It explores the changes introduced into Ottoman cosmographical manuscripts, including representations of holy geography, popular medicine, the dangers of seafaring, Egyptian antiquities, portraits of the Ottoman sultans and depictions of the Orthodox Christian and European.
Bilha Moor is Assistant Professor of Art History at University of Denver, specialising in Islamic Art and Architecture. She completed her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2011. Prior to her current position, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral fellow of Islamic art at Northwestern University (USA), a Rothschild postdoctoral fellow at SOAS University of London, and a research associate with the Shahnama Project at the University of Cambridge. Her research has been published in Artibus Asiae, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam and Manuscripta Orientalia and she has book chapters in Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility and Distrust in Pre-Modern Ottoman Lands, ed. Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem Çıpa and Helga Anetshofer (Academic Studies Press, 2018) and Shahnama Studies II: The Reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama, edited by Charles Melville and Gabrielle van den Berg (Brill, 2012), as well as The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online, edited by Johanna Pink et al. (Brill, forthcoming 2024).
