Al-Idrisi at the Court of the Christian Sovereign

Konovalova, Irina

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S207987840025984-1-1

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10.18254/S207987840025984-1

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Affiliation: Institute of World History RAS
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Volume 14 Issue 4 (126)

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The paper examines the history of cooperation between two outstanding personalities of the 12th century — the Arab geographer al-Idrisi and the king of Norman Sicily Roger II, by whose order and with whose assistance al-Idrisi created the geographical work “The Book of Pleasant Journeys into Faraway Lands”, which included, in addition to describing the ecumene, detailed maps. An analysis of the history of the creation of this work from the point of view of such a discipline as the geography of knowledge leads to an understanding of the features of both the form and the content of al-Idrisi’s work. Despite the fact that al-Idrisi borrowed the general principle of land description according to latitudinal zones-climates from the Islamic geographical tradition, his approach to the depiction of the countries and peoples of the world reveals significant differences from the practice of Islamic scientists. In his work, al-Idrisi creates a space devoid of hierarchy, homogeneous in terms of value, permeated with paths that connected cities and countries.

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al-Idrisi, Roger II, geographical description, map, space, cross-cultural contacts

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GOST	Konovalova I. Al-Idrisi at the Court of the Christian Sovereign // ISTORIYA. – 2023. – V. 14. – Issue 4 (126). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840025984-1-1/. DOI: 10.18254/S207987840025984-1
MLA	Konovalova, Irina "Al-Idrisi at the Court of the Christian Sovereign." ISTORIYA. 14.4 (126) (2023). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840025984-1
APA	Konovalova I. (2023). Al-Idrisi at the Court of the Christian Sovereign. ISTORIYA. vol. 14, no. 4 (126) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840025984-1

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