The Book of Curiosities: A Newly Discovered Series of Islamic Maps
Author(s): Jeremy Johns and Emilie Savage-Smith
Read the attatched file page 7-24 and discuss: First, describe what kind of source The Book of Curiosities is. Then, pick one of the subjects of the book (the kind of science its author discusses, one of the maps, the author's background etc), and discuss what this tells us about the Persian empire and its connections to its neighbors.