#the book of roger
The Normans: In this major series, Professor Robert Bartlett examines the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of the Normans, and shows how they transformed the history of Europe.
Muhammad al-Idrisi (1099—1165/6) was a Moroccan Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II of Sicily.
Book of Roger: The Nuzhat al-mushtāq fi’khtirāq al-āfāq (lit. “the book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands” in Arabic), most often known as the Tabula Rogeriana (lit. “The Book of Roger” in Latin), is a description of the world and world map created by the Arab geographer, Muhammad al-Idrisi, in 1154.
