Made in Arabic
al-Ma'mun's world map
الصورة المأمونيّة
The caliph al-Ma'mun (d. 833) set a group of scholars to draw a picture of the earth, known as «al-Ṣūra al-Maʾmūniyya». On this globe, made after the surviving map, the world is read in its Arabic names – the Sea of Qulzum, the Sea of Jurjan and Tabaristan, the land of Persia, the Sea of Basra, the land of Kabul – and the ring is graduated in abjad letters.
- Instrument
- a globe bearing al-Ma'mun's world map
The path between languagesal-Ṣūra al-Maʾmūniyya
أ.د. عبد العزيز الحميد، متحف جامعة الإمام
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Sources
- Fuat Sezgin, Science and Technology in Islam, vol. 1 (the globe on its cover) and vol. 3, the Ma'mun map
- بطاقة المتحف: «نموذج الكرة الأرضيّة: مرسومة عليه خريطة الخليفة المأمون…»
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