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Karen C. Pinto

Karen C. Pinto was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, and was educated at Dartmouth and Columbia. She is into pre-modern maps of all kinds and sizes in a big way. She specializes in medieval Islamic maps and has spent the better part of two decades hunting them down in manuscript libraries around the world. She has a three-thousand-strong image repository of Islamic maps—many that have never been published before.

Pinto's book, Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration (Chicago 2016), won a Choice Outstanding Academic Title (OUT) award in 2017. She received National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) support for her next book on The Mediterranean in the Islamic Imagination, and is completing a smaller book on What is ‘Islamic’ about Islamic Maps? She has also been working on an online digital encyclopedia of Islamic Maps (MIME), which, pending funding for the copyright and use of the images, she hopes to release to the public someday soon. Her latest discovery on an eighth-century mimetic image of the moon, “Fit for a Prince”, was just published in The Medieval Globe (4.2,2018, 29-68).  

For additional examples of her work, please follow this link.

ARTICLES BY Karen C. Pinto