Al-Idrisi’s Norman Kingdom in the South : : The Book of Roger in Translation / / ed. by Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Matt King, Sherif Abdelkarim, Katherine Jacka.
The Book of Roger is a twelfth-century Arabic geographical treatise commissioned by King Roger II of Sicily and compiled by the Muslim polymath al-Idrisi. On its completion in around 1157 it was the most detailed description of the known world produced up to that point. This translation covers Sicil...
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