Oxford Reference Search Results

Narrow Your Choices

By Availability

By Reference Type

Refine By Subject

  • Religion (1)
  • Science and technology (1)

By Content Set

By Illustrations

You are looking at 1-1 of 1 entries  for:

  • All: Part 20 claim x
  • Science and technology x
  • Results with images only x
clear all

View:

Overview

Part 20 claim

Subject: Law

A claim other than a claim by the claimant against the defendant. It includes (1) a counterclaim by the defendant against the claimant; (2) a counterclaim by the defendant against a third ...

Geography and Cartography

Geography and Cartography   Reference library

Constantin Canavas

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2014
Subject:
Religion, Science and technology
Length:
4,876 words
Illustration(s):
1

...Sezgin claims that a map ( Ṣūrat lauḥ al-Rasm ) found in a copy of the geography Masālik al-abṣār by Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī ( 1340 ) kept in Topkapı Sarayı in Istanbul (MS Ahmet III, 2797 ) is essentially the world map of al-Maʾmūn’s geography project ( Sezgin, 1987 , Map 11, “Maʾmūnic Map”). This claim has been contested by other scholars, such as Tibbetts, who consider the possibilities of later (e.g., Ottoman) modifications of the extant Ṣūrat lauḥ al-Rasm as quite probable and regard “Maʾmūn’s map still as an enigma” ( Sezgin, 2000 , p. 20;...

View: