Image:Al-Idrisi's world map.JPG

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en:al-Idrisi world map, Arabic from 804/1154/1456 A.D.

Note that south is at the top of the map.

• Oriented with South at the top
• Public domain because of age.

First version taken from [1], more specifically [2]. Second version was losslessly rotaded and cropped from [3]

According to the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, "Ten copies of the Kitab Rujar exist worldwide today. 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". [4]

The image here is from a manuscript copied by 'Alî ibn Hasan al-Hûfî al-Qâsimî in Cairo in 1456, now preserved in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. (Mss. Pococke 375 fol. 3v-4)

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