Tag: Islamic geography

• Al-Idrisi’s world: the map made for Roger II of Sicily, set against a modern one

  

  In 1154 a Muslim geographer in Palermo drew the known world for the Norman king of Sicily, south at the top. I read 431 of its towns and measured it: directions right to a median 10 degrees, and Sicily drawn best and biggest of all.

  Tristan Hotham

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