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Muḥammad al-Idrīsī: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs al-Ḥammūdi al-Ḥasanī al-Idrīsī • Idrīsī, al-Sharīf al-
Born 1100 • Ceuta • Morocco
Died 1165 or 1166
Notable Works “Kitāb nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq”
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German geologist
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David Thompson
English explorer
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Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
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Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
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British geographer
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
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Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
Swedish statesman
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
German geographer and explorer
James Rennell
James Rennell
British geographer
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Scylax Of Caryanda
Greek explorer
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Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville
French cartographer
Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
Aaron Arrowsmith
British geographer and cartographer
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Douglas Freshfield
British explorer
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Bartholomew Columbus
Italian explorer
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Giacomo Doria
Italian naturalist and explorer
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Philippe Buache
French geographer and cartographer
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Pedro Nunes
Portuguese geographer
Engraving of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, standing on a decorated stone block with another man, overlooking ancient Egyptian columns and palm trees in the background.
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer

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