(Iceland)

• Main Author: شكوفه مقبل Şukufe Mukbil
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Manuscript 1916
• Subjects: Ottoman Mapping; School; Iceland
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Dimensions are sheet size. "49 full page hand-drawn maps in black ink, coloured with colour pencils, recto, and 21 flags verso, one page with manuscript in Ottoman and French in black and blue ink, other sheets blank, original brown cloth binding with gilt name of the author on the cover, hand-patterned endpapers (at least 3 maps cut out, repairs to cracks in the butters of endpapers, otherwise in a good condition). One of the earliest known atlases, made by an Ottoman and Islamic female mapmaker, designed in a wonderful minimalistic early art deco style This stunning WWI manuscript atlas of the world in art deco forms was made in 1916 by a female Ottoman student and it is an early, if not the first known atlas by a female mapmaker in the Islamic world. The author is signed as Şukufe Mukbil and the atlas was made as a school project. Each map is signed by a teacher, as “controlled”. The two inscriptions on the last page, made by the author and possibly a teacher (please see below), confirm this. The maps represent various continents, countries and parts of the world, some of them with railway systems. The maps are represented in unique minimalistic forms and coloured with attractive colours in outline. First Classes in Geography for Women in the Ottoman Empire - İnas Darülfünun The atlas was made in the time of a major feminist movement in the Ottoman Empire, when women demanded same rights as men, and could be possibly connected with the first Ottoman female university for women İnas Darülfünun, which was established in 1912 as a part of growing female emaciation in the Ottoman Empire and as a reply on similar foreign schools for girls. Geography and ethnography were obligatory subjects in the first year (Ali Arslan - Özlem Akpınar, İnas , Darülfünunu (1914- 1921) Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları VI/2, 2005, p. 227). The classes, which started in October of 1914, were free and were in the first year attended by 22 girls, of which 20 graduated three years later. All together 53 female students received the diploma ...