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20: 45: 680: 872: 257:—where it is labelled "The Island of the Jewel, and its mountains encircle it like a basket" or "like scales"—and in other medieval Arabian and Persian texts. 601: 277: 99: 411: 811: 590: 425: 394: 119: 61: 33: 755: 212:
of the AD 1037 manuscript of al-Khwārizmī—including that of the Island of the Jewel—are the oldest surviving maps from the
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for its coast, three cities, its surrounding chain of mountains, and two summits on the interior. It lies in the
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Rapoport, Yossef; et al. (December 2004), "Medieval Islamic View of the Cosmos: The Newly Discovered
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Der Osten nach der Erdkarte al-Ḫuwārizmīs: Beiträge zur historischen Geographie und Geschichte Asiens
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without being able to explain what might lay on the imagined eastern shore of the
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Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods
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A Sea Discovered: Pre-Columbian Conceptions and Depictions of the Atlantic
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Routes & Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World
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Kitāb Ṣūrat al-Arḍ, The Book of the Description of the Earth
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traditionally credit the founding of their community to the
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as early as the 7th century. Muslim merchants such as
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Semi-legendary island in medieval Arabic cartography
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(2008), 729:, vol. Series 4, Vol. II, Pt. 1: 725:Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei 358: 548: 182:of Arabs and Persians is recorded at 7: 750:, Ann Arbor: University of Toronto, 645:Johns, Jeremy; et al. (2003), " 120:Book of the Description of the Earth 34:Book of the Description of the Earth 687: 675: 633:, Bonn: Oriental Department of the 585:, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 110:, forming the eastern limit of the 92: 77: 14: 704:National & University Library 98:) was a semi-legendary island in 715:Nallino, Carlo Alfonso (1896), 676:عبد الله محمد بن موسى الخوارزمی 800:and a Unique Map of the World" 1: 823:"#256: Martellus' World Maps" 733:, Rome: V. Salviucci for the 296:Sometimes also translated as 248:and 2° north of the equator. 846:Tibbetts, Gerald R. (1987), 746:Olshin, Benjamin B. 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Index


chorographic map
al-Khwārizmī
Book of the Description of the Earth

Indian Ocean
modern reconstruction
al-Khwārizmī
world map
Arabic
Arabic
medieval Arabic cartography
Sea of Darkness
equator
inhabited world
Book of the Description of the Earth
al-Khwārizmī
Fortunate Isles
Indian Ocean
Sinae
Serica
Asia
Roman missions
Han court
Longbian
Hanoi
Chinese Muslims
Companion
Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas
Soleiman

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