skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

Preferred term

al-Idrisi  

Definition(s)

  • al-Idrisi was arguably the greatest medieval geographer. A descendant of the prophet Muhammad, this Arab scholar was titled al-Sharif al-Idrisi but known in the West as Geographus Nubiensis, the Nubian geographer. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Al-Idrisi]

Broader concept(s)

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CFNJR71R-Z

Download this concept: