Journal
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One Map, Two Geographies
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The Arabic cartographic tradition, which drew upon and transmitted the cartography of Ptolemy, a Greek geographer and astronomer of the second century, projected the spherical world onto a plane, which was then divided into grids. The longitudinal bands were called “climes” and the latitudinal bands, “sections.” The intersection of the…
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Iran: Islamization of a post-Islamic society
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Since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been trying to create an Islamic society. Despite the various changes that were made to establish it, the project failed due to its lack of faith.
