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Al-Mawsuli, Ilyas Hanna. “The Book of Travels of the Priest Ilyas, Son of the Cleric Hanna la-Mawsuli.”  In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century. Nabil Matar (ed & trans).  New York: Routledge, 2003. 45-112.   For June 24, 2010.

Alam, Muzzafar and Sanjay Sarbrahmanyam. Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  For June 21, 2010.

bin Qasim, Ahmad. “Journey to France and Holland.”  In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century.  Nabil Matar (ed & trans).  New York: Routledge, 2003. 5-44.  For June 24, 2010.

Brotton, Jerry.  “Disorienting the East: The Geography of the Ottoman Empire.”  Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World.  Jerry Brotton (ed).  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.  87-118.  For June 15, 2010.

Faroqhi, Suraiya.  The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It.  New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004.  137-160.  For June 22, 2010. 179-210.  For June 24, 2010.

Ghiselin, Ogier.  The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, 1554-1562.  Edward Seymour Forster (trans).  1927.  Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.  1-67.  For June 24, 2010.               

Mack, Rosamond E.  Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.  For June 28, 2010.

Mack, Rosamond E. & Mohamed Zakariya, "The Pseudo-Arabic on Andrea del Verrocchio's 'David'," Artibus et Historiae 60/30 (2009): 157-172. For June 28, 2010.

Manners, Ian & M. Pinar Emiralioglu. European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: Maps from the Collection of O.J. Sopranos. Chicago, IL: The Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, 2007. 17-80 ( ideally to 107). For June 15, 2010

Massing, Jean Michel. “Observations and Beliefs: The World of the Catalan Atlas.” Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Jay A. Levenson (ed). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. 27-33 and 120-121. For June 15, 2010. Matar, N.I. Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 1-82. For June 22, 2010.

Matar, N.I.  Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.  1-82.  For June 22, 2010.

Necipoglu, Gulru. “Süleyman the Magnificent and the Representation of Power in the Context of Ottoman-Hapsburg-Papal Rivalry,” Art Bulletin 71/3 (1989): 401-427. For June 28, 2010.

Short, John R. “Coordinating the World.” Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600. John R. Short (ed). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004. 9-33. For June 15, 2010.

Soucek, Svat.  “Islamic Charting in the Mediterranean.”  History of Cartography, volume 2, book 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies.  J.B. Harley and David Woodward (eds).  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992.  263-292.  For June 15, 2010.

Tabak, Faruk.  The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870: A Geohistorical Approach.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.  33-185. For June 22, 2010.

Translations of selected fourteenth-century Indo-Persian travel narratives.  For June 21, 2010.

Recommended Readings |back to top

Aksan, Virginia H. and Daniel Goffman (eds).  The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
 
Bisaha, Nancy.  Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
 
Brotton, Jerry.  The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Campbell, Caroline, Alan Chong, Deborah Howard, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, J. Michael Rogers, National Gallery (Great Britain).  Bellini and the East.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Campbell, Tony.  “Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500.”  History of Cartography. Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.  J. Brian Harley & David Woodward (eds).  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Carboni, Stefano (ed).  Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

Ciggaar, K. and M. Metcalf (eds).  East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean: Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest until the End of the Crusader Principality.  Leuven: Uitgerverj Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2006.

Davis, Natalie Zemon.  Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds.  New York: Hill & Wang, 2006.

Delanty, Gerard.  Europe and Asia Beyond East and West.  New York: Routledge, 2006.

-----.  Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Delanty, Gerard and Chris Rumford.  Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization.  New York: Routledge, 2005.

Dursteler, Eric R.  Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean.  The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and PoliticalScience. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Ebel, Kathryn Ann.  City Views, Imperial Visions: Cartography and the Visual Culture of Urban Space in the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1603.  PhD Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2002.

Edson, Evelyn.  “The World View of the Mappamundi in the Thirteenth Century.”  The World Map, 1300-1492.  Evelyn Edson (ed).  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.  11- 32.  

Eickelman, Dale and James Piscatori (eds).  Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.

Goffman, Daniel.  The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Gunn, Geoffrey C.  First Globalization: The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Hamilton, Alastair.  “An Egyptian Traveller in the Republic of Letters: Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt.”  Journal of Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 57 (1994): 123-50.

Harley, J. Brian & David Woodward (eds).  History of Cartography. Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

-----.  History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies.  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Hobson, John M.  The Eastern Origins of Western Civilization.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Howard, Deborah.  Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100-1500.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.

Imber, Colin.  The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Jackson, Anna and Amin Jaffer (eds).  Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800. London: Victoria and Albert, 2004.

Jardine, Lisa & Jerry Brotton.  Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Kadafar, Cemal.  “A Death in Venice (1575): Anatolian Muslim Merchants Trading in Serenissima.” Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World.  Sanjay Subrahmanyam (ed). Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1996.  97-125.

Levenson, Jay A., with contributions by Diogo Ramada Curto and Jack Turner.  Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2007.

Lyons, Jonathan.  The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization.  New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

MacLean, Gerald (ed).  Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

McIntosh, Gregory C.  The Piri Reis Map of 1513.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Menage, V. L.  “Three Ottoman Treatises on Europe.” In Iran and Islam, in Memory of the Late Vladimir Minovsky.  C. E. Bosworth (ed). 1971.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.  421-33.

Necipoglu, Gulru.  The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

-----.   Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.  Architectural History Foundation Book.  Cambridge, MA: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1991.

O’Shea, Stephen.  Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World.  New York: Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.

Parker, Kenneth (ed).  Early Modern Tales of Orient.  New York: Routledge, 1999.

Robinson, Francis & Ira M. Lapidus.  The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Smith, Pamela H. & Paula Findlen.  Merchants & Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe.  New York: Routledge, 2002.

Whitfield, Susan.  Life Along the Silk Road.  1999.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Wood, Frances.  The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Woodward, David.  The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance.  Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2007.

-----.  “Medieval Mappaemundi.”  History of Cartography. Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.  J. Brian Harley & David Woodward (eds).  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Young, George Frederick.  The Medici.  1909.  New York: Modern Library, 1913.

External Online Resources |back to top

The Art Institute of Chicago. Silk Road Project. September 2006-October 2007. http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/silkroad/themes.html.

Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institute. The Arts of the Islamic World. Online Exhibition. http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/results.cfm?group=Arts%20of%20the%20Islamic%20World&start=24

-----. Caliphs and Kings: The Art & Influence of Islamic Spain. 2004. http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/caliphs/intro.htm

-----. Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 2007. http://www.asia.si.edu/EncompassingtheGlobe/

-----. Fountains of Light: Islamic Metalwork from the Nuhad Es-Said. 2006-7. http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/fountainsLight.htm

-----. Iraq & China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovations. 2004. http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/iraqChina/defaultIC.htm

-----. Muraqqa’: Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. 2008. http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/Muraqqa/default.htm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797. March 2007 through July 2007.
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Venice/Islamic_world_more.asp

National Gallery of Art, USA. Artistic Exchange: Europe and the Islamic World. 2004-5.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/artexchange/artexchange_ss.shtm

Victoria and Albert Museum. Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/asia/islamic_gall/touring_exhib/index.html