Islamic geography
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Map from Mahmud al-Kashgari's Diwanu Lughat at-Turk, showing the 11th century distribution of Turkic tribes.
Islamic geography begins in the 8th century, as a direct continuation of Hellenistic geography. Al-Khwārizmī's Kitāb ṣūrat al-Arḍ ("Book on the appearance of the Earth") was completed in 833. It is a revised and completed version of Ptolemy's Geography, consisting of a list of 2402 coordinates of cities and other geographical features following a general introduction.[1] Muslim geography reached its apex with Muhammad al-Idrisi in the 12th century.
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[edit] List of geographers and ethnographers
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The world map of Al-Idrisi (12th century)
- Al-Khwarizmi (780-850)
- Ya'qubi (d. 897)
- Ibn Khordadbeh (820-912)
- Al-Dinawari (828-898)
- Hamdani (893-945)
- Ibn Khurdadhbih (d. 912)
- Ali al-Masudi (896-956)
- Ibn al-Faqih (10th c.)
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th c.)
- Ahmad ibn Rustah (10th c.)
- Al-Muqaddasi (b. 945)
- Ibn Hawqal (d. after 977)
- Abu Said Gardezi (d. 1061)
- Abu Abdullah al-Bakri (1014-1094)
- Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100-1165)
- Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217)
- Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179-1229)
- Hamdollah Mostowfi (1281-1349)
- Ibn Battuta (1304-1370s)
- Ahmad Bin Majid (b. 1432)
- Amin Razi (16th c.)
[edit] See also
- History of geography
- History of cartography
- Islamic science
- Timeline of science and technology in the Islamic world
- List of Arab scientists and scholars
- Chinese geography
[edit] References
[edit] Further reading
- Sezgin, Fuat (2000). Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums X–XII: Mathematische Geographie und Kartographie im Islam und ihr Fortleben im Abendland. Historische Darstellung. Teil 1–3 (in German).
