CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Transliterations and Conventions

Illustrations and Map

Color Section

Foreword Lorenz Hurni

Preface: What is a Map? Valerie Hansen

Introduction Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony

PART I THE BUDDHIST ROAD

Chapter One Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty Iconography: Questions and Hypotheses Nicolas Zufferey

Chapter Two Visualizing Pilgrimage and Mapping Experience: Mount Wutai on the Silk Road Natasha Heller

Chapter Three The Mapping of Sacred Space: Images of Buddhist Cosmographies in Medieval China Dorothy C. Wong

PART II THE MONGOL ROAD

Chapter Four Lost in Translation: Gridded Plans and Maps along the Silk Road Jonathan M. Bloom

Chapter Five Square Horoscope Diagrams in Middle Eastern Astrology and Chinese Cosmological Diagrams: Were These Designs Transmitted through the Silk Road? Johannes Thomann

Chapter Six The Intrusion of East Asian Imagery in Thirteenth-Century Armenia: Political and Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road Dickran Kouymjian

PART III WITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD

Chapter Seven Comparing al-Kashghari's Map to his Text: On the Visual Language, Purpose, and Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Maps Andreas Kaplony

Chapter Eight The Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the East Yossef Rapoport

PART IV THE MEDITERRANEAN ROAD

Chapter Nine Celestial Maps and Illustrations in Arabic-Islamic Astronomy Paul Kunitzsch

Chapter Ten Revisiting Catalan Portolan Charts: Do They Contain Elements of Asian Provenance? Sonja Brentjes

Conclusion Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony

Appendix List of Geographical Nomenclature in al-Kashghari's Text and Map Andreas Kaplony

General Bibliography

Index