![]() ![]() Drawing on several centuries of Islamic cartographic research, 12th century Islamic cartographer al-Sharif Al-Idrisi produced both a book of 70 regional. al-idrisis silver disk, planisphere, was form projection considerably in. ABU DHABI, 26th February, 2020 (WAM) - A ground-breaking re-creation of lost 12th century map on silver disc merges will be on display at Abu Dhabi's Manarat Al Saadiyat, as part of the Hay Festival currently underway in the nation's capital. The voluminous treatise has a large amount of detail about Europe in the 12th century. The manuscript does include maps that are more accurate than those of. This map was one of his greatest creations in the pre-modern era. map inverts our conventional ordering of north and south, placing south at the top of the image, and following the 10th century geographer Ibn Hawqal he locates Mecca at the centre of the world. Beeston, 'Idrisi's Account of the British Isles', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 13.2 (1950), 26580 at pp. ![]() He took almost eighteen years to compile all the information and create a map of the world which was very accurate and had never been created before. A sixteenth-century copy of al-Idrs's original Arabic map of eastern England, Scotland and the west coast, from Oxford's MS Pococke 375, fol. Geography was translated into Arabic and used by the North African born Arab al-Idrisi as a source for his famous map of 1159. When these men returned with the information about these lands he used the data collected by them to update the geographical treatise he had created with the information received from Greek and Arabic geographers. In his Geography he describes a world map and twenty-six regional maps of Europe, western and southern Asia, and northern Africa. He acquired geographic information by sending men to far off lands accompanied by draftsmen. He was the immediate descendant of the ‘Hammudis’ who ruled Andalusia around 1016 to 1058 AD and were an offshoot of the ‘Idrisids’ who ruled during the period 789-985 AD. He was the descendant of a long line of Princes, Sufi leaders and Caliphs down to the Prophet Muhammad. The maps drawn by him were often corrections of the existing maps at that time which showed inaccurate geography of the regions in question. Muhammad al-Idrisi also known as Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qutubi al-Hasani al-Sabti was a Muslim cartographer, geographer, traveler and Egyptologist famous for his travels all over Europe, Africa and Asia and mapping the regions he travelled in. ![]()
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