Is Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Idris Hammoudi al-Hassani al-Qurtubi, known as the "Shareef Al Idrisi, born Butgr Ceuta, which is located north of Morocco on the Strait of Gibraltar in 493 AH and died in probably years old 560, educated at Cordoba in Andalusia, which moved to and care geography in particular where Vobda, which is one of the greatest scholars of geography and Arab travelers, and has a post in history, literature, poetry, and botany.Supernatant Idrissi many countries in Andalusia, Morocco, Portugal, Egypt, and knew the coast of Western Europe from France and England, also known as Constantinople and the shores of Asia Minor, and ended to Sicily, he settled in the court of the owner, promoted him the second Norman, known to Arabs as Rjar, in Balrm , and teach here Balskulai. Fastaan Rjar tags, and it was scientists who were numbered in the manufacture of silver circle the earth and the development of the interpretation of them, and it seems that the Idrisi left Sicily at the end of his days, and returned to his home town of Ceuta, where he died.A. Idrissi his famous (Nuzhat in penetrating the horizon), which became the most famous Arabic geographical effects, according to information from Europeans great for the Levant, as reported by him to the Orientals, he took him and the two maps were taken, and some sections translated into different languages.ContributionsIdrisi put in writing (Nuzhat in penetrating the horizon) 70 emerged from the world map accuracy compared with the maps that were present at the time, saying, Idrisi spherical Earth at the time there was a prevalent belief that it is flat.Section Idrissi the northern half of the globe to seven climatic zones mixed, then divided each of them in turn to ten equal sectors, in the number of meridians, and draw each of these sectors seventy map independent so that the formed maps Seventy in the aggregate a comprehensive map of the world known map of Idrisi a more accurate conclusion reached by geography and art of cartography at that age, and marked these maps as they are based on solid knowledge of the spherical earth as it was characterized as a show of the geographic features of Europe accuracy is unprecedented in any map other and that these maps were shown details of the Mediterranean Sea with high accuracy is unprecedented.And his contributions to "ball silver", where the making of "Roger II" a ball of silver graphic on the surface map of the world to become the representative of the Earth's diameter was the ball of two meters in length and weighing an estimated weight of two men, has lost the ball in the era of ignorance and intolerance that prevailed after the age of the Normans the first two.Idrisi criticized most of the literature written by his predecessors and commented upon and explained a lot of ambiguities, and they also added a description of his travels which he outlined the sources of the Nile and the fauna in these areas and highlight the limits of equatorial lakes that the failure of many of the scientists.Idrisi able to measure the circumference of the Earth to the very fact that twenty-two thousand nine hundred miles which is equivalent to 42,185 kilometers and this figure is close to the perimeter, a real 40 068 km.As well as geography, Idrisi was also interested in medicine and medical curriculum, the development of scientific efforts in this area in a book called "The Book of single drugs," which he described the drugs and their properties using a dozen languages.HisOf the most important books Alidrejsi in geography: the book "Nuzhat in penetrating Prospects", which is the greatest work of Idrisi called this book the name of "The Book of Rojar" or "book Alrojari" in relation to King Roger II, who wrote Idrisi writing in Knfe and calmed him, and the book - the book "a recipe Maghreb": the geography and conditions of the Maghreb, and the book "Kindergarten company, picnic self" that was left of this book only shortcuts, known as "Little Idrisi."It works Idrisi's Geography: A medicine in his book "Almfaragp drugs" that the number of the names of some drugs Barely one tenth language, in Botany A Idrissi book "Whole Plant for sundries."Position of the WestAlthough the IDRISI is a Alomay basic relied upon by the European Renaissance, but it is not addressed, from the West the memory of his contributions, and Oncefh "Jack Ressler" in his book Arab civilization in which he said: It was not Ptolemy Professor true in the geography of Europe, but was Idrisi, who was born in 1100 and graduated from Cordoba, who lived in Palermo, Fmsourat Idrissi which is based on knowledge of spherical Earth was the culmination of science geographical atlases in the medieval period of abundance, health and coverage. "He says, "Baron de Ceylon," about the book "Nuzhat of" Idrissi: "It is a book can not be compared by any geographical book before and is still our guide to some parts of the earth
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