Idrisi, Al

Arabian geographer, * Ceuta about 1099 or 1100, † Palermo(?) 1165 or 1166.

Al Idrisi lived at court of Roger II. from Sicili for whom he wrote a comprehensive discription about the then known Earth which was connected with a large silvery map of EarthBook of Roger«).

Within it he combined the knowledge of former arabian geographers with the experiences of his own travels and thereby he also appealed often to contemporaries who reached Central Europe.

  
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