Muhammad Idrisi
Muhammad Idrisi was a Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist, and traveler whose most significant contribution was his geographical text, 'Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi Ikhtiraq al-Afaq' (The Excitement of the Seeker of the Curving of the Horizons), commonly known as the Tabula Rogeriana. This work, commissioned by Roger II of Sicily, presented the known world of the 12th century with remarkable accuracy. Idrisi's detailed maps and descriptions of the various regions, cultures, and peoples of the ...
Muhammad Idrisi was a Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist, and traveler whose most significant contribution was his geographical text, 'Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi Ikhtiraq al-Afaq' (The Excitement...