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Mapping in the Islamic Tradition: Ṣūrat al-Arḍ

Pinto, Karen

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In a presentation entitled “Ṣūrat al-Arḍ: Ways of Seeing Islamic Depictions of the World and Beyond,” Karen Pinto, associate scholar of religious studies at University of Colorado-Boulder, revealed a view of the world from the perspective of the rich Ṣūrat al-Arḍ Islamic mapping tradition, in which art, geography, religion and philosophy merge to present images with cosmographic origins and a spatial identity oriented to the South. From the messages encoded in these maps, we discover long hidden historical narratives and gain a new appreciation for the contributions of this mapping tradition to our world’s history of cartography. This lecture is part of the Philip Lee Phillips Society 2024 fall presentation, “Mapping in the Islamic Tradition.”

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