AcknowledgmentsContributorsTransliterations and ConventionsList of Illustrations and MapsForeword - Lorenz HurniPreface: What Is a Map? - Valerie HansenINTRODUCTION - Philippe Forêt and Andreas KaplonyPART I: THE BUDDHIST ROAD1 Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty Iconography: Questions and Hypotheses - Nicolas Zufferey2 Visualizing Pilgrimage and Mapping Experience: Mount Wutai on the Silk Road - Natasha Heller3 The Mapping of Sacred Space: Images of Buddhist Cosmographies in Medieval China - Dorothy C. WongPART II: THE MONGOL ROAD4 Lost in Translation: Gridded Plans and Maps along the Silk Road - Jonathan Bloom5 Square Horoscope Diagrams in Middle Eastern Astrology and Chinese Cosmological Diagrams: Were These Designs Transmitted through the Silk Road? - Johannes Thomann6 The Intrusion of East Asian Imagery in Thirteenth-Century Armenia: Political and Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Road - Dickran KouymjianPART III: WITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD7 Comparing al-Kashghari's Map to His Text: On the Visual Language, Purpose, and Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Maps - Andreas Kaplony8 The Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the East - Yossef RapoportPART IV: THE MEDITERRANEAN ROAD9 Celestial Maps and Illustrations in Arabic-Islamic Astronomy - Paul Kunitzsch10 Revisiting Catalan Portolan Charts: Do They Contain Elements of Asian Provenance? - Sonja BrentjesCONCLUSION - Philippe Forêt and Andreas KaplonyAppendix: List of Geographical Nomenclature in al-Kashghari's Text and Map - Andreas KaplonyGeneral BibliographyIndex.