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These rare antique maps of the world will give you an ancient tour that shows just how far we've come.
MAGNI TURCARUM DOMINATORIS IMPERIUM per EUROPAM, ASIAM ET AFRICAM. (The Great Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa) Augsburg, 1740 by Georg Matthaus Seu...
mamluk empire
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Arabic map showing the “Arab tribes” before Islam
The map is a reconstruction of Africa according to Ibn Said taken from Youssouf Kamal. Back to Table of Contents (5)To next page Ibn Said al Maghribi (1250) Kitab Djoughrafiya fi l’ aqalim al Sab (Book of maps of the seven climes) born in Spain ------------------------------ Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Musa ibn Sa’id al-Maghribi (1213–1286), also known as Ibn Sa’id al-Andalusi, was an Arab geographer, historian, poet, and collector of poetry from al-Andalus. He was born near Granada and grew up in Marrakesh. He died in Tunis in 1286. Ibn Said's best known book is the al-Mughrib fi hula l-Maghrib (The Extraordinary Book on the Adornments of the West), an anthology and a geography. In 1250 he wrote his Kitab bast al- ard fi 't -t ul wa-'l-'ard (The Book of the Extension of the Land on Longitudes and Latitudes). Also known as his Kitab al-Jughrafiya (Geography). His work is of great value for the History of East Africa and Madagascar. Mostly taken from : Neville Chittick:East Africa and the Orient. E.J.Brill ;The encyclopedia of Islam; 1984 M Guillain; Documents sur l'histoire, la geographie Youssouf KamaltomIVfasc1 Relations de voyages et textes géographiques arabes, par Gabriel Ferrand. La région du lac Tchad d’après la géographie d’Ibn Saʿīd. Textes et cartes. Dierk Lange
Al-Qazwīnī, ʿAğāʾib al-maḫlūqāt wa-ġarāʾib al-mawğūdāt -- 1601-1650 -- manuscrits
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A wide-ranging new Getty book examines the role of text and image across cultures over the thousand-year span of the Middle Ages
The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences, and Marvels for the Eyes, an eleventh-century Arabic geography, is still a wonder.
Edward Aiken (ed.) Atlas, Ay Majmu‘ Kharitat (New York: Appleton, 1890s?) Today we're delighted to have another guest post from Zac...
Around 1,000 years ago (sometime between 1020 and 1050, to be as precise as we can be), a Muslim scholar living in Cairo wrote a book.
A major exhibition devoted to the annual pilgrimage to Mecca aims to lift the veil on a ritual that has remained a mystery to many in the non-Muslim world.
Born in the Bosnian town of Visoko, Ottoman Renaissance man Matrakçı Nasuh's life and time are thoroughly explored in the ‘16th Century Genius...
Circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the penis. The procedure is most often performed on children for religious or cultural reasons. Moreover, it may be done as a treatment for specific medical conditions. Approximately 38% of males worldwide are circumcised, about 50% for religious or cultural reasons.
