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Muhammad al-Idrisi

Muhammad al-Idrisi
Estatua de Al-Idrisi bajo el baluarte de los Mallorquines, Ceuta (5).jpg
Statue of Al-Idrisi in Ceuta
Born 1100
Ceuta, (present-day Spain)
Died 1165
Ceuta
Fields Geographer, writer, scientist, cartographer
Known for Tabula Rogeriana

Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti, or simply Al-Idrisi /ælɪˈdrs/ (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي القرطبي الحسني السبتي‎‎; Latin: Dreses; 1100 – 1165), was a Muslim geographer, cartographer and Egyptologist who lived in Palermo, Sicily at the court of King Roger II. Muhammed al-Idrisi was born in Ceuta, then belonging to the Almoravids.

Al-Idrisi was born into the large Hammudid family of North Africa and Al-Andalus, which claimed descent from the Idrisids of Morocco and ultimately the prophet Muhammad.

Al-Idrisi was born in the city of Ceuta, where his great-grandfather had been forced to settle after the fall of Hammudid Málaga to the Zirids of Granada. 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. He visited Anatolia when he was barely 16. He studied in Córdoba.


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