Zayde Antrim. Mapping the Middle East

In her first book, Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World (2012), Zayde Antrim examines Muslim geographic perceptions of land at the high point of the Abbasid period (ca. 750–1000 c.e.). With this second monograph, Mapping the Middle East, she has expanded her scope to provide the first in-depth analysis of the long-term development of local mapping in the Middle East, an ancient and diverse world region. Into this overlooked time and place, Antrim has advanced an important agenda in the history of cartography—by looking beyond the singular ideal imposed by modern Eurocentric cartographic standards, by recognizing the rich diversity of geographic imagery revealed by multiple cultural contexts, and by rescuing it from obscurity—that scholars have been pursuing since J. B. Harley’s call for a “humanistic turn” in the 1980s. Antrim argues that history provides the best means to overcome the persistently Eurocentric

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