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The 15th-century Arabic book Kitab al-Fawa'id fi wal al-ilmi al bahri wa'l qawa'id (Book of Useful
Information on the Principles and Rules of Navigation) was compiled by Ibn Majid and his student Sulaiman Al Mahri. In his journals, Al Mahri noted the islands off the west coast of
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He grouped the shores of Malaya with Siam, and the mainland to the east with China as a single kingdom. This passage from Al-Mahri's book illustrates the limits of Arab navigators:
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Since many of the islands have not been identified with confidence, the extent of his travel and familiarity with the region is not known.
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for navigation from 70 to 15. Combinations of these lists of stars were used by Arab navigators and mariners up to the early 16th century.
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He sailed across the Indian Ocean and wrote a book on the geography of the Indian Ocean and the islands of
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navigators. Even in the mid-16th century Sidi Ali Celeb translated Al Mahri's texts into
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Know that to the south of the Island of Jawa are found many
Islands called
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Medieval Arab
Navigation on the Indian Ocean: Latitude Determinations
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are the
Islands of Bandam, also a large number. The latter are places
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Persian Gulf States: a general survey By Alvin J. Cottrell p. 16
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Geography and cartography in the medieval
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Early mapping of
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Technical note on Indian Ocean Arab
Navigation Studies
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States: a general survey By Alvin J. Cottrell p. 16.
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282:by J. Acevedo and I. Bénard of the
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618:Ibn Jubayr
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212:sandalwood
153:Ibn Majids
127:, eastern
125:Hadhramaut
66:Occupation
48:Hadhramaut
869:(Ptolemy)
867:Geography
756:Amīn Rāzī
746:Piri Reis
556:Al-Biruni
505:Al-Masudi
216:aloeswood
177:Singapore
137:Ibn Majid
117:navigator
715:Zheng He
592:al-Zuhri
566:Al-Bakri
510:Istakhri
257:See also
74:Language
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720:Ma Huan
576:Domiyat
459:Ya'qubi
251:Turkish
181:Samarra
173:Malacca
46:Shihr,
684:Lin Nu
169:Malaya
106:Arabic
85:Yemeni
77:Arabic
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224:Clove
208:Timor
204:Timor
189:Burma
143:Works
133:Mahra
129:Yemen
123:, in
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52:Yemen
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