GEOGRAPHICAL THINKING IN KITAB OF IDRISI AND IN RIAT OF BATTUTA: A COMPARATIVE EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTION
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-9632.geoliterart.2018.142144Keywords:
Kitab, Rihla, EpistemologyAbstract
This study has aimed at three main goals, all of them of epistemic nature: the first is to approach from a new point of view the contributions of medieval Muslim thinkers to different domains of Geography; the second was to try to confirm the idea that, most likely, the medieval geographers of Islam have made the connection between the Greeks from antiquity and the predecessors of 17th and 18th centuries’ classic European schools of geography; the third goal is to show a not yet brought issue, that is the conclusion that, besides many significant similarities and differences, a comparative study between Idrisi's Kitab and Battuta's Rihla allows the identification, in medieval Islam, on the one hand, the presence of a scientific approach or, at least, a pre-scientific (Idrisi) one, and on the other hand of a corographic view, with strong religious influence and practices that can be found in current humanistic and cultural geographies (Battuta).Downloads
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