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Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti, or simply al-Idrisi / ælɪˈdriːsiː / ( Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي القرطبي الحسني السبتي; Latin: Dreses; 1100–1165), was a Muslim geographer and cartographer who served in the court of King Roger II at Palermo, Sicily.
Muhammad al-Idrisi was an Arab geographer and adviser to Roger II, the Norman king of Sicily. He completed several major medieval geographic works, including a planisphere with a map of the world and a geographic text intended as its key.
Jan 13, 2022 · Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Idrisi (circa 1100–66) was a 12th century geographer from al-Maghrib (North Africa). Born of noble lineage in Sabtah (the present-day Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco), he studied in Cordoba.
Oct 19, 2023 · One of the most famous cartographers to publish early maps of the world was Arab Muslim geographer, traveler, and scholar Abū Abdallāh Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abdallāh ibn Idrīs al-sharif al-Idrīsī, or simply al-Idrisi.
Jun 18, 2024 · Muhammad al-Idrisi was a renowned cartographer and geographer who created one of the most detailed and accurate maps of the world in the 12th century. He was known for his eclectic and diverse background, having been born in Morocco, educated in Spain, and working in Sicily under the Norman king Roger II.
Feb 10, 2024 · A 12th-century Islamic scholar and intrepid traveler from Northern Africa, al-Idrisi acted on commission of the King of Sicily to make a magnificent engraved silver map (now lost) and printed works which remained the most accurate reference points for three centuries.
Aug 25, 2021 · In 1154, Arab Muslim geographer al-Idrisi, working at the behest of King Roger of Sicily, created a huge map of the known world. The map was more than 9 feet long and composed of 70 separate section maps. The Library preserves a 1928 recreation of this map.
Jul 1, 2024 · Ibn al-Qūṭiyya, born Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar Ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʾIbrāhīm ibn ʿIsā ibn Muzāḥim, also known as Abu Bakr or al-Qurtubi, was an Andalusian historian and considered the greatest philologist at the Umayyad court of caliph Al-Hakam II.
Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Idrisi. The Arab geographer Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100-1165) wrote the Book of Roger, a world geography, for King Roger II of Sicily. His work, marking the end of the classical age of Arab geography, sums up much of its achievement.
This book presents a remarkably rational and un-territorial vision of the world; unlike most maps made in the centuries which followed, al-Idrisi’s maps omit boundary lines between Christian and Muslim dominions, seeking to offer an objective geography of landmass and of human settlement.
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