Figures
1 Angelo Monticelli. Achilles’ shield 27
2 Head of Socrates 47
3 Augustus as Pontifex Maximus (The Via Labicana Augustus) 154
4 The Roman Empire under Augustus 155
5a Ptolemy’s map of the world 202
5b Ptolemy’s map of the world (reconstruction) 202
6 Confucius 217
7 The Territory of the Han Dynasty (60 BCE) 275
8 Space in the culture of ancient China 287
9 Symbolic representation of heaven and earth in the culture of ancient China 287
10 A map of the Abbasid Caliphate and Umayyad Emirate 309
11 Statue of al Farabi 337
12 Statue of Ibn Sina, Bukhara 364
13 Charta Rogeriana / The map of the world drawn by Idrisi 448
14 A portrait of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (from Angelo Buonaiuto) 500
15 Statue of Ibn Khaldun in Tunis 532
Diagrams
1 Al-Farabi. The structure of society 357
2 Al-Farabi. Oikoumene, community, territory, city 357
3 The division of the world according to al-Muqaddasi 447
Tables
1 The structure of the cosmos according to al-Farabi 338
2 Al-Farabi. The cities opposed to the virtuous city 356
3 Al-Farabi. Classification of the ignorant cities 356
4 The structure of the cosmos according to Avicenna 371
5 Al-Idrisi. Location of the provinces of the world (from the Kitab) 450