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. Al-Idrisi was...

1099-1166 Arab Geographer and Cartographer Al-Idrisi (also known by his short name Al-Sharif Al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi) was one of the most renowned Arab geographers of his day. Under the service of King Roger II of Sicily, he dispatched draftsmen around...

Ash-Sharif al-Idrisi (1100-1165?) wrote one of the greatest works of medieval geography and produced the first world map to use a grid system of vertical and horizontal lines to designate geographic subdivisions and climatic zones. As a geographer and...

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi (Arabic أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي; Latin: Dreses) (born 1100 - died 1165 or 1166) was a Moroccan cartographer, geographer and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II. Muhammad...

What was his background? The Arab cartographer al-Idrisi was born in Ceuta, Morocco, in 1099 into a noble family that claimed a direct line of descent from the Prophet Mohammed. After studying in Cordoba, the capital of Islamic Spain, he wrote poetry...

This new publication by Ulrich Haarmann is of that rare kind that is both joy and despair to the reviewer - in particular, one who is not among the few experts concerned with the history of the pyramids. It is done so well...