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Muhammad al-Idrisi
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Image:Al-Idrisi's world map.JPG thumb|right|300px|Al-Idrisi's world map from 1154. Note that south is at the top of the map
'''Al-Idrisi''' (b.
1100-d.
1165 or
1166) full name '''Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi''' (
Arabic language Arabic: أبو عبد الله Ù…Øمد الإدريسي) was an
Arab cartography cartographer,
geography geographer and traveller who lived in
Sicily, at the court of King
Roger II of Sicily Roger II. Muhammad al-Idrisi was born in
Sabtah, then belonging to the
Almoravids Almoravid Empire (nowadays
Ceuta,
Spain) and died in
Sicily, or maybe in
Sabtah.
In
1154 al-Idrisi made a large, south-oriented ''
mappa mundi'' known as the ''Tabula Rogeriana'' and an accompanying book, named ''Geography''. Taken together, they were named ''Nuzhat al-Mushtak'' by Roger, but ''
Kitab Rudjar'' ("Roger's Book") by al-Idrisi.
A second, expanded edition was produced in
1161 with the remarkable title ''The Gardens of Humanity and the Amusement of the Soul'', but all copies of it have been lost. An abridged version of this edition, named ''Garden of Joys'' -- but usually referred to as the ''Little Idrisi'' -- was published in
1192.
The book is not a perfect historical source, as al-Idrisi (as was common then and for many more centuries) relied on other sources for it. For example, when writing about
Poland he has conflated it with the land that is the modern-day
Czech Republic, because he wrote about "a country surrounded by mountains".
Category:1100s births Al-Idrisi
Category:1160s deaths Al-Idrisi
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