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ChapterOne
TheOriginoftheMuslimGeographicalImageoftheWorld
1.TheestablishmentofIslamicGeography.
2.Cosmography,andGeographyinIslamicTraditions.
3.DoctrinalprefaceinMuslimgeographicalworks.
4.TheModeloftheCircleandtheNotionoftheSphericityofthe
EarthinIslamicCosmographyandGeography.
5.TheNumberSeveninIslamicTraditionsandGeographyorthe
LegendoftheSeptuaginta.
6.TheConceptoftheLegendaryĞabalQāf(QāfMountain).
7.TheTransmissionofClassicalGeographicalKnowledgetothe
Arabs:
1.IndianInfluences-Qubbatal-Arḍ,
2.GreekInfluences.
1.TheestablishmentofIslamicgeography
Arabicgeographicalliteraturewasdistributedamongvarious
aspectsofgeography.Itsthreemainbranchesarerepresentedin
humangeography,administrativegeographyandthegeographyof
individualcountriesanditinerary.Mathematicalgeographypursued
alongthelinesofAl-ūwārizmīʼsworkṢūratal-arḍ,asinthe
geographicaltablesofAl-Battānīalsoservedasthebasisofthetables
ofAbūAl-FidāʼinTaqwīmal-buldānandothersimilarworks[1].It
shouldbenotedthattheArabsdidnotconceivegeographyasawell-
definedanddelimitedsciencewithaspecificconnotationandsubject-
matterinthemodernsenseoftheterm[2].Moreover,themajor
languagesofIslam,mainlyArabicandPersian,donotpossesswords
thatuniquelyandunequivocallydenotegeography[3].Usuallythe
wordgeography,whichmeansdescriptionoftheearth,wasadopted
byGreekscholars.AlthoughArabsknewthisword,anumberof
wordsandphrasesusuallydefinetheGreekwordgeography
descriptively[4].TheseincludeṢuratal-arḍ(thepictureoftheearth),
Al-Buldān
(countries),Al-masālikwaal-mamālik
(countriesand
routes),andMasālikal-mamālik(itineraryofcountries).