Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world

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This is a copy -- made in 1929 with names translittered into Latin script -- of the 1154 Arabic Tabula Rogeriana. It is presented here, upside-down, with north on the top.

Further resources

A very high-resolution version of this map is available here.

Versions at various resolutions in the original orientation are available here.

A thorough academic study is Maqbul Ahmad, 'Cartography of al-Sharif aI-Idrsi', The History of Cartography, vol. 2, bk. 1 (Chicago, 1992), pp. 156–174