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09/24/2026 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall

Two yellowed leaves of an Arabic codex manuscript, each with Arabic text at the top and beneath circular cosmological maps.

Arabic Cosmographical Maps: Reworking Ancient Traditions

Ali Karjoo-Ravary

This talk introduces how the Arabic and Islamic manuscript tradition inherited and adapted images of the late antique cosmos, focusing on a series of cosmographical maps from the 12th century Andalusian Sufi thinker, Ibn al-ʾArabi (d. 1240) and considering the reception of these images in the visual history of the Islamic world.

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