PERSON

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs ibn Ḥammūdī al-Ḥasanī al-Qurṭubī al-Siqillī

Name (arabic)

أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن عبد الله بن إدريس بن حمّودي الحسني القرطبي السقلّي

Name (translit)

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs ibn Ḥammūdī al-Ḥasanī al-Qurṭubī al-Siqillī

Alias

Idrīsī
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
ٍSharīf al-Idrīsī

Born

493H/1100J

Flourished

Died

554H/1160J

Born in

Lived in

Number in MAMS

470

ismi_id

186186

Authored Works

2 works:

Geography: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-arḍ

Kitāb al-Rūjar , كتاب الروجر
Uns al-muhaj wa-rawḍ al-furaj , أنس المهج وروض الفرج

References

Omar, G. 2012. “Al-Idrīsī”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed.
Kennedy, Hugh. 2012. “Two Arabic World Maps: The World According to Al-Idrīsī 549 1154 - The World According to Al-Sharfī 986 1579”. In Historical Atlas of Islam.
Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 180-81 (no. 470).

Ahmad, Sayyid. 1997. “Al-Idrīsī”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine In Non-Western Cultures, 442-43.
Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1, p. 477; suppl. 2, p. 876.

Sezgin, Fuat, ed. 1992. Studies on Al-Idrīsī. 4 vol. Frankfurt am Main.
Ahmad, Sayyid. 1973. “Al-Idrīsī”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 7:4-6. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Krachkovsky, Ignaty. 1957. “Arabskaya Geograficheskaya Literatura”. In Izbrannye Sochineniya. Vol. 4. Moscow-Leningrad.

Pp. 287-99.

Seybold, Christian. 1927. “Al-Idrīsī”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2:451-52.
Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 2, pp. 410-12.