Mediterranean Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes?

该项目研究了地中海海图的两个阿拉伯地图集的跨文化和翻译性翻译，以及关于伊斯兰神圣地理和时间的补充材料，两个阿拉伯世界海图，以及一份16世纪的奥斯曼帝国突厥语地中海海图，突尼斯和奥斯曼帝国海图制作者在各自的制作阶段进行了这些海图的制作，从而形成了多语言和多文化的对象。该项目询问在哪些领域进行了知识积累、翻译以及杂交过程。此外，还探讨了制片人使用的技术、语言学、地理学、数学、天文/占星学和艺术方法和工具，以及他们可能合作的人。将两幅地图集、两幅世界海图和地中海海图与早期的阿拉伯世界和区域地图以及意大利和加泰罗尼亚海图进行比较，目的是揭示地理知识及其可视化的变化和转化过程。在优先方案的方法、亚洲翻译的政治和经济背景以及解释伊斯兰社会早期现代艺术和知识生产的新方法中，将制定一个阿拉伯和突厥语海图和地图集的整体解释模式，旨在为调查地中海(14-16世纪)的海图和地图集开辟新的研究视角。

This project studies transcultural and translinguistic translations in two Arabic atlases of Mediterranean nautical charts and additional material on Islamic sacred geography and timekeeping, two Arabic world charts, as well as an Ottoman Turkic chart of the Mediterranean of the sixteenth century, which the Tunisian and Ottoman producers of the charts undertook in the respective phases of production and which led to the composition of the multilingual and multicultural objects. The project asks in which areas of knowledge accumulation translations, as well as processes of hybridization took place. Furthermore, explores the technical, philological, geographical, mathematical, astronomical/astrological and artistic methods and tools with which the producers worked and the people with whom they possibly cooperated. The comparison of the two atlases, the two world charts and the Mediterranean chart with earlier Arabic world and regional maps, as well as Italian and Catalan nautical charts is undertaken with the goal to uncover processes of change and transformation of geographical knowledge and its visualization. Embedded in the methodologies of the Priority Program, the political and economic contextualization of translations in Asia, and new approaches to interpreting early modern art and knowledge production in Islamicate societies, a holistic interpretive model for Arabic and Turkic nautical charts and atlases shall be formulated that is meant to open up new research perspectives for investigating nautical charts and atlases of the Mediterranean (14th-16th centuries).