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". According to the French National Library, "Ten copies of the Kitab Rujar or Tabula Rogeriana exist worldwide today. Tabula Rogeriana Īl-Idrisi's world map from 'Alî ibn Hasan al-Hûfî al-Qâsimî's 1456 copy. His travels took him to many parts of Europe including Portugal, the Pyrenees, the French Atlantic coast, Hungary, and Jórvík (now known as York). He visited Anatolia when he was barely 16. He spent much of his early life travelling through North Africa and Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain of the times) and seems to have acquired detailed information on both regions. Īl-Idrisi was born in the city of Ceuta, at the time controlled by the Almoravids but now a part of Spain, where his great-grandfather had been forced to settle after the fall of Hammudid Málaga to the Zirids of Granada. 2.1 Description of islands in the North SeaĪl-Idrisi was born into the Hammudid family of North Africa and Al-Andalus.
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