Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond

• Acknowledgments
• About the Contributors
• Introduction: Studying Imagined Geographies across Time and Space [Dimitri Kastritsis]
• 1. Repurposing Ancient Knowledge: Eustathios of Thessaloniki and His Geographical Anthology [Dimiter Angelov]
• 2. The Lands of the Rhômaíoi: Imagined Geographies in Byzantium before and after 1204 [Yannis Stouraitis]
• 3. Imagination and Experience in Thirteenth-Century Latin Encounters with the ‘Orient’: John of Plano Carpini, the Mongols, and Monsters [Angus Stewart]
• 4. Ottoman Imagined Geography in the Verses of the Court Poets Ahmedi and Abdülvasi (ca. 1402–1414) [Dimitri Kastritsis]
• 5. Mapping the Safavid/Bijapur/Mughal/Savanur/Mysore/St Andrews Qur’an: A Diachronic Life History [Keelan Overton]
• 6. Pan-Islamic Plot or Colonial Paranoia?: Ottoman Policies towards Southeast Asia, 1824–1916 [A. C. S. Peacock]
• 7. Worlds in Motion: Al-Bustani’s Arabic Encyclopedia (Da’irat al-Ma‘arif) and the Global Production of Knowledge in the Late Ottoman Levant and Egypt (1870s–1900s) [Ilham Khuri-Makdisi]
• 8. Island Topophilia: Alexandros Papadiamantis’s The Murderess (1903) [Yota Batsaki]
• 9. ‘Ten Feet by Ten Feet by Ten Feet’: Endgame’s Confinement and Devastation on the Greek Stage (2009–2017) [Anna Stavrakopoulou]
• Index

Dimitri Kastritsis is Senior Lecturer in Ottoman and Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews.

Anna Stavrakopoulou is Associate Professor of Theater Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Angus Stewart is Lecturer in Medieval and Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews.