XIᵉ siècle – XIIᵉ siècle
Sicily and the Islamic world
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Al-Idrisi was a geographer who lived at the court of King Roger II of Sicily and was regarded in the extract as perhaps the greatest geographer of the Islamic world. His work belongs to the intellectual milieu linking the western Muslim world, Sicily, and broader medieval scientific traditions.
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Al-Idrisi is identified as the outstanding geographer of the period under discussion. The extract places him at the court of King Roger II of Sicily, where he worked within a multilingual and cross-cultural environment connecting the Islamic world with Norman Sicily. His career demonstrates the movement of learned expertise across political and religious frontiers.
The author presents al-Idrisi as perhaps the greatest geographer of the Islamic world. Although the extract does not describe the contents of his geographical work in detail, it emphasizes his exceptional standing among the historians and geographers of the period. His intellectual importance extended beyond the western Maghrib into the wider medieval world.
Al-Idrisi’s work was undergoing scholarly editing in Italy at the time described by the author. The extract therefore preserves both his medieval position at Roger II’s court and the later scholarly effort to establish and edit his writings.
XIᵉ siècle – XIIᵉ siècle
Sicily and the Islamic world
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
Al-Idrisi was a geographer who lived at the court of King Roger II of Sicily and was regarded in the extract as perhaps the greatest geographer of the Islamic world. His work belongs to the intellectual milieu linking the western Muslim world, Sicily, and broader medieval scientific traditions.
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Le récit
Al-Idrisi is identified as the outstanding geographer of the period under discussion. The extract places him at the court of King Roger II of Sicily, where he worked within a multilingual and cross-cultural environment connecting the Islamic world with Norman Sicily. His career demonstrates the movement of learned expertise across political and religious frontiers.
The author presents al-Idrisi as perhaps the greatest geographer of the Islamic world. Although the extract does not describe the contents of his geographical work in detail, it emphasizes his exceptional standing among the historians and geographers of the period. His intellectual importance extended beyond the western Maghrib into the wider medieval world.
Al-Idrisi’s work was undergoing scholarly editing in Italy at the time described by the author. The extract therefore preserves both his medieval position at Roger II’s court and the later scholarly effort to establish and edit his writings.