Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
الإدريسي محمد بن عبد الله
1100 CE · 493 AH – 1164 CE · 560 AH
A geographer and traveller from Ceuta who worked at the court of Roger II in Sicily. He wrote Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, a geographical work with a world map.
At a glance
- Roles
- geographer · Scientist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Geography and cartographyHistory-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- ScientistTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
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People and things also explored
Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abd al-Razzaq al-Bitar· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni· Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Khawja· Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi· Al-Akwa', Muhammad ibn Ali
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-idrisi-muhammad-ibn-abd-allah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.