Al-Idrisi

c. 1100–c. 1165

Arab geographer who made a celebrated world map for Roger II of Sicily.

Known as: Geographer
Category: Explorers
Born: c. 1100, Ceuta
Died: c. 1165, Sicily

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Alive at the same time as Al-Idrisi

Abdul Qadir Gilani 1078–1166, mystic
Anna Komnene 1083–c. 1153, historian
Li Qingzhao 1084–c. 1155, poet
Bernard of Clairvaux 1090–1153, monk
Ahmad Yasawi c. 1093–1166, mystic
Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179, abbess
Héloïse c. 1100–1164, philosopher
Bhāskara II 1114–1185, mathematician
Eleanor of Aquitaine c. 1122–1204, queen
Frederick Barbarossa 1122–1190, emperor
Jayavarman VII c. 1122–c. 1218, king
Benjamin of Tudela 1130–c. 1173, traveler

Portrait: Estatua_de_Al-Idrisi_bajo_el_baluarte_de_los_Mallorquines,_Ceuta_(3).jpg: Mario , CC BY-SA 3.0.