Arabic in the Sciences
Nuzhat al-Mushtāq, the Book of Roger
نزهة المشتاق
Al-Idrisi wrote his geography for Roger II, King of Sicily, in 1154; its abridgement was printed in Arabic in Rome in 1592 and in Latin in Paris in 1619.
- Author
- Muhammad al-Idrisi (d. c. 1166)
- Field
- Codes, geography, farming and machines
- Arabic title
- نُزهةُ المُشتاق في اختراق الآفاق (كتاب رُجّار)
- Latin title
- Geographia Nubiensis (Paris 1619, Latin of the abridgement); the world map is known today as the Tabula Rogeriana
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