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  2. Paper: Global Networks of Innovation: China, Islam and the West, 1100-1700
  3. Unit: Navigating Space

Arabic map: the Maghreb Chart, ca 1325-50

Commentary

Arabic map: the Maghreb Chart, ca 1325-50

The Maghreb Chart in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, is the earliest preserved portolan chart from the Islamic world. It was drawn up in North Africa in the first half of the fourteenth century and has many features in common with its contemporary European counterparts. Its distinctive arrangement of rhumb lines appears to have been copied from a chart made in 1325 by Angelino de Dalorto in Palma de Mallorca.

Commentary. Philipp Nothaft (May-June 2019)