Talk:Tabula Rogeriana

More MS copies

 * Cairo: Egyptian National Library, Dar al Kutub (Jugrafiya 150)
 * Oxford: Bodleian Library. (MS Greaves 42). "One of the English MSS., brought from Egypt by Greaves, is illustrated by a map of the known world, and by thirty-three sectional maps (for each part of the first three climates)" - Britannica 1911.
 * A copy of Idrisi's work in the Escorial was destroyed by the fire of 1671. - Britannica 1911.

Jheald (talk) 14:53, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Inaccuracy needing to be recitified/clarified?
Quotation from the article: "It remained the most accurate world map for the next three centuries.[2][3]"

Sources from quotation: Harley & Woodward, 1992, pp. 156–161. S. P. Scott (1904), History of the Moorish Empire, pp. 461-2

In both of these sources I could find no reference to the statement "It remained the most accurate world map for the next three centuries." The user who made this edit back in 2008 has since been banned from editing the English Wikipedia, this could be coincidence but it really seems like there is nothing connecting these sources to this line on the article as of now. Perhaps this information is somewhere else in the listed sources, but on the pages corresponding to this source there is nothing mentioned about the claim in question. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:500:C000:1350:1066:D99C:6233:D04A (talk) 22:56, 6 April 2021 (UTC)


 * I agree, thanks for raising the issue. I see that it's been fixed. Glendoremus (talk) 04:45, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Al-Idrisi's planisphere was a disc, not a globe.
The Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization reproduced al-Idrisi's planisphere as a globe. That's the shape that al-Idrisi knew the world to be, but not the shape that he created in 1154. The museum's reproduction properly represents al-Idrisi's knowledge to a modern audience, but it does not properly represent his artwork.

Al-Idrisi's planisphere was a work of art, a discussion piece. One can imagine that al-Idrisi pointed to the different regions of the world as he described them to the King. One can also imagine that there was no need to present the world as a globe in 1154. That had been done before. The the Globe of Crates from 150 BC is the earliest known globe representing the Earth.

With that in mind ... Which picture should be placed at the top of this article? the Sharjah Museum's globe or Konrad Miller's map?


 * Konrad's map is a much better choice. The globe is misleading. Glendoremus (talk) 21:05, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: History of the Medieval Middle East in 100 Objects Fall 2022
— Assignment last updated by 2ale1jandr0 (talk) 18:35, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

— Why and/or how did you guys goof up the translation of the book? I corrected the previous, inaccurate one many months ago and you guys' edit went back to it. Were you guys working off an old revision of the page for this or something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A000:BFC0:35:DD8B:2FAC:C8A9:3165 (talk) 06:41, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

The Arabic Title
It is not “The Book of Pleasant Journeys into Faraway Lands”. I put in the correct title, which is “The Excursion of One [Who is] Eager to Penetrate the Horizons”. Or I guess "Penetrate Faraway Horizons" could be a more poetic rendering.

Please stop changing it back to the wrong translation. 2605:A000:BFC0:35:DD8B:2FAC:C8A9:3165 (talk) 23:07, 23 January 2023 (UTC)