Ibn al-Wardi

ابن الوردي

Draft card for Zayn al-Din Umar ibn al-Muzaffar known as Ibn al-Wardi, the Shafi'i jurist and geographer of Ma'arra author of Kharidat al-Aja'ib, d. 1349; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Scholar · writer
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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Geography and cartography

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People and things also explored

The seven climates· The equator· The horizon circle· The earth's sphericity· Measuring the earth· Joining the Red Sea to the Mediterranean· Piri Reis map· Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz

Sources

  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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The seven climates

Seven climates in each quarter of the earth — settlement reaching 24 degrees beyond the equator, the southern quarter desolate with heat, the rest drowned — and the fourth climate, Iraq, holding the fairest share where the sun's ray falls purest.