Caption

The Muslim World circa 1111-1700

Summary

This map illustrates the expansion of the Muslim world as a result of conquest or political allegiance, and as is reflected in the powerful and long-lasting influence exerted by Muslim traders in regions such as East Africa.

Legend indicates:

• Limit of Muslim Rule
• Trade routes
• Approximate frontier
• Fixed administrative borders
• Chinese and Russian campaigns against the Kalmuks (1696-1759)
• Dates show Russian and Chinese advance in Asia & Ottoman advance
• Border of the Manchu Empire c. 1700
• Border of the Manchu Empire c. 1760 (additional territory taken from Kalmuks)
• Date of annexation by the Manchu

Source

An Historical Atlas of Islam – Atlas Historique de l’Islam, Second Edition. Edited by Hugh Kennedy, Tuta sub Aegide Pallas 1683,
Brill, Leiden-Boston-Koeln, 2002, page 13.

Cartography by Marc Bel, Peter van der Donck.

Copyright

© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, The Netherlands. All rights reserved.

Series

This map is one in a series:

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• Image:MG©Al-Andalus and Al-Maghrib- The Muslim Conquest, 44-732.jpg
• Image:MG©Islam in China, 9th-20th Centuries.jpg
• Image:MG©Linguistic Regions of the Islamic World circa 900-1500.jpg
• Image:MG©Ottoman Expansion 1362-1402 A.D. The First Conquest of Rumelia and Anatolia.jpg
• Image:MG©The Indian Ocean circa 390-1000.jpg
• Image:MG©The Muslim World circa 403-1100.jpg
• Image:MG©The Muslim World circa 700-1300.jpg
• Image:MG©The Muslim World circa 905-1500.jpg
• Image:MG©The Muslim World circa 1111-1700.jpg
• Image:MG©The Muslim World circa 1317-1900.jpg
• Image:MG©The Turks and Portuguese in the Indian Ocean 10th-16th Centuries.jpg
• Image:MG©The Western Mediterranean in the 3rd-9th C..jpg
• Image:MG©The World on the Eve of the Muslim Conquests circa 600 A.D..jpg
• Image:MG©The World According to Al-Idrisi 549-1154.jpg
• Image:MG©The World According to Al-Sharfi 986-1579.jpg