caa a22 4500 388101717 CHVBK 20180307125323.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800055495 doi S0020743800055495 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800055495 Troutt Powell Eve M. From Odyssey to Empire: Mapping Sudan Through Egyptian Literature in the Mid-19th Century [Elektronische Daten] [Eve M. Troutt Powell] The medieval Arabic cartography of Africa outlined a paradoxical continent of facts, myth, and mystery. Ever since the great geographers such as al-Idrisi, al-Umari, al-Masudi, and Ibn Battuta traveled to and wrote about Africa, the map of Black Africa became a combination of mystical and empirical knowledge, the result of, in the words of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, "the interplay of the ideological and the cognitive.” These kinds of maps were very illustrative of certain classificatory categories in which Africans in general were known, and where cultural boundaries were drawn between more specific areas, such as Egypt and neighboring African kingdoms. Merchants and traders also contributed to the mapping of the frontier to Egypt's uppermost south, the vast territory known as bilāad al-sūdān. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/3(1999-08), 401-427 0020-7438 31:3<401 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800055495 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800055495 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Troutt Powell Eve M. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/3(1999-08), 401-427 0020-7438 31:3<401 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge