![]() ![]() The mechanical genius of the author was not inferior to his erudition. The relative position of the lakes which form the Nile, as delineated in his work, does not differ greatly from that established by Baker and Stanley more than seven hundred years afterwards, and their number is the same. Not only is its historical information most interesting and valuable, but its descriptions of many parts of the earth are still authoritative.įor three centuries geographers copied his maps without alteration. The map, with legends written in Arabic, while showing the Eurasian continent in its entirety, only shows the northern part of the African continent and lacks details of the Horn of Africa and Southeast Asia. Of these ten, six contain at the start of the work a circular map of the world which is not mentioned in the text of al-Idris. ![]() Modern consolidation, created from al-Idrisis 70 double-page spreads, shown upside-down as the original had South at the top.Īccording to the French National Library, Ten copies of the Kitab Rujar or Tabula Rogeriana exist worldwide today. Nasab Sayyid Muhammad Amin Al Idrisi Al Hasani Full Of Tempests. ![]()
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