L’Europe dans la cartographie arabe médiévale

The two main schools of the medieval Arab cartography – the mathematical geography and the Balkhî’s school – pictured Europe, though based on different ideas. For the Muslim medieval observers, the European continent had no geographical unity. It was seen as a mosaic of peoples, and Spain was bound...

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Main Author: Jean-Charles Ducène
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2008-12-01
Series:Belgeo
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/8801
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