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Birth: Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah

1100 CE · 493 AH

A geographer who wrote Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq for Roger II, king of Sicily, and completed it in Shawwal 548 AH.

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  1. Birth: Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah — 1100 CE · 493 AH

    A geographer who wrote Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq for Roger II, king of Sicily, and completed it in Shawwal 548 AH.

  2. Al-Idrisi at Roger II's court, Palermo — c. 1138 CE · c. 532 AH†

    The Norman king Roger II hosted al-Idrisi at Palermo in Sicily about 1138, commissioning a survey of the earth's knowledge and a silver celestial sphere .

  3. Nuzhat al-Mushtaq completed, 549 AH — 1154 CE · 549 AH

    Al-Idrisi completed for Roger II the Nuzhat al-Mushtaq geography in 549/1154 with the celebrated planisphere known as the Tabula Rogeriana .

  4. Death: Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah — 1164 CE · 560 AH

    A geographer who wrote Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq for Roger II, king of Sicily, and completed it in Shawwal 548 AH.