In 1807, Omar ibn Said, an itinerant Islamic scholar in West Africa, was taken prisoner during a military conflict and enslaved. About 37 years old at the time of his enslavement, he survived the ...
"Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely ...
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