Geography Image Gallery
by Media DeskPublished on: 3rd September 2020
Browse through selected images taken from Muslim Heritage articles related to Geography...
“Everywhere’s been where it is ever since it was first put there. It’s called geography.” ― Wyrd Sisters
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- Google honors Al-Biruni’s Birthday with this Doodle
- USSR stamp, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, 6 copecks, 1973
- An illustration from al-Biruni’s astronomical works, explains the different phases of the moon
- The Tabula Rogeriana, by Al-Idrisi in 1154, is one of the most detailed maps of the ancient world. This map has been rotated to show its similarity with modern maps
- South Caucasus (Armenia)
- Matrakci’s Tebriz
- Granada/Spain and its surrounding areas
- Piri Reis’ depiction of the Mediteranean
- Al-Qazwini’s world map of the inhabited world, from cosmography
- World map from Mahmud el-Kashgari’s Diwan, 11th century
- Indian Ocean
- Sicily
- Mediterranean Sea
- Erzurumlu Ibrahim Hakki’s World Map in his Marifetname book
- Cyprus
- Piri Reis’s World map, 16th century
- Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi map, 16th Century
- Ali Macar’s world map
- City of Istanbul and Develi illumination from Matrakçi’s Beyân-i Menâzil-i Sefer-i ‘Irakeyn
- Czech National Library copy of al-Wardi’s map
- a copy of al-Wardi’s world map
- A copy of Ibn al-Wardi’s world map
- 16th century copy of Al-Qazwini’s world map from his “Marvels of Regions”
- Al-Idrisi’s 12th century world map
- World map from the Book of Curiosities manuscript held at the Bodley Library
- Persian Gulf’s coast
- A world map by Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri (934 CE) aka Estakhri. The map is oriented with South at the top, a common feature of maps at the time. Picture displayed on “Old Manuscripts and Maps from Khorasan”
- A map by Abu Zaid Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi (850-934), a Persian geographer who was a disciple of al-Kindi and also the founder of the “Balkhī school” of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad. Picture displayed on “Old Manuscripts and Maps from Khorasan”
- Turkish Stamp
- A portrait of Marco Polo wearing a Tatar outfit
- Mahmud of Kashgar’s map of world (Divânu Lügati’t-Türk, translated into Turkish by Rifat Bilge, Istanbul 1917, 3 vols
- Imaginary potrait of Mahmud of Kashgar/Mähmut Qäşqäri
- Introduction page from Divânu Lügati’t-Türk
- Coordinates of Piri Reis map
- Portrait of Pîrî Reis
- A Turkey Republic bank note contains Pîrî Reis’ map
Images are taken from the following articles:
When the World was Upside Down: Maps from Muslim Civilisation by Cem Nizamoglu, Khaleel Shaikh
The Oldest Map of Japan Drawn by Mahmud of Kashgar by Sevim Tekeli
Earliest maps of America by Sevim Tekeli
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“Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.” ― The Outsiders
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