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ISLAMIC SACRED GEOGRAPHY Tubingen 2019 C
ISLAMIC SACRED GEOGRAPHY Tubingen 2019 C
09.00 h Christoph Mauntel Chair: Ellen Widder (Tübingen) Chair: Steffen Patzold (Tübingen)
Introduction III: Traditional Knowledge in New Forms? V: Representing the World in Latin-Christian
14.00 h Stefan Schröder (Helsinki) Geography
Chair: Heidrun Eichner (Tübingen)
Changing World Views and Religious 09.00 h Nathalie Bouloux (Tours)
I: Geographic Concepts and Their Religous Content
Concepts of the Past – Meaning and Function Ordering and Reading the World: The Maps in
09.15 h Karen Pinto (Boise)
of the Early 14th-Century ‘Transitional Maps’ Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus
What is ‘Islamic’ About Islamic Maps?
14.45 h Felicitas Schmieder (Hagen)
10.00 h Christoph Mauntel (Tübingen) 09.45 h Cornelia Dreer (Kassel)
The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on
The T-O Map and its Religious Connotations Knowledge, Faith and Pragmatism – The
Terrestrial Globes from Around 1500
– A Circumstantial Case Maps in Ranulph Higden’s Polychronicon
15.30 h Coffee Break
10.45 h Coffee Break 10.30 h Coffee Break
IV: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic
II: The Holy Land and its Place in Latin-Christian Geography VI: Locating and Narrating Religion(s) and Sacrality
Geography 16.00 h Nadja Danilenko (Berlin) 11.00 h Jean-Charles Ducène (Paris)
11.15 h Ingrid Baumgärtner (Kassel) What’s Lord Got to Do With It? Grasping the Al-Idrīsī, the Geography and the Religions
The Geography of the Holy Land. Burchard of Islamicate World Through al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of
Mount Sions’s Text and the Extant Maps Routes and Realms 11.45 h Kurt Franz (Tübingen)
12.00 h Emmanuelle Vagnon (Paris) 16.45 h David King (Frankfurt) Divinity in Yāqūt’s Lexicon of Peopled Places:
When Religious Topography Meets the Islamic Sacred Geography - The World about A Reduction
Geography of the Humanists: the Tabula the Kaaba (Folk Astronomy) and the World
moderna Terrae Sanctae in the 15th Century about Mecca (Mathematical Geography) – 12.30 h Final Discussion