TheBook of Curiosities: An Eleventh‐Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels

Cartography

“…It is one of six maps in this treatise that depict the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean (Rapoport, 2011;Rapoport, 2012;Savage-Smith, 2010;Kahlaoui, 2008a: 140-160;Savage-Smith and Rapoport, 2007).Though not giving his name, the author provides quite a lot of information about himself. Neither an historical or theological narrative, nor a representation of the Mediterranean in terms of its enclosing landmasses, this map was a pictorial record of ports as they occur in sequence around the rim of the Mediterranean.…”