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Historical person
1110–1166
Muhammad al-Idrisi was a twelfth-century geographer and cartographer who worked at the court of Roger II of Sicily. He compiled a major description and map of the known world using information from travellers, merchants and earlier geographical traditions.
In Tariq Ali’s A Sultan in Palermo (Islam Quintet 4), set in twelfth-century Sicily, the novel follows the geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi at the court of Roger II.
Series
The Islam Quintet is Tariq Ali’s cycle of five historical novels examining encounters between Islamic societies and the Christian West across more than five centuries. Moving from the fall of Muslim Granada and the Crusades to Norman Sicily, the late Ottoman Empire and the modern transnational world, the…
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