The Indian and Chinese sea (China, India, Sind and Yemen)
البحر الهندي والصيني (بحر الصين والهند والسند واليمن)
Al-Idrisi describes this sea as beginning thirteen degrees north of the equator, running west past China, India, Sind and southern Yemen to Bab al-Mandab, about 4,500 farsakhs long, with some three hundred islands 1.
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Al-Idrisi describes this sea as beginning thirteen degrees north of the equator, and extending westward along the line past China, India, Sind and the south of Yemen as far as Bab al-Mandab. He estimates its length at about four thousand five hundred farsakhs, and mentions about three hundred islands in it. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 9
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.9
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islam.museum contributors. “The Indian and Chinese sea (China, India, Sind and Yemen)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/indian-ocean-nuzhat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.