similarities between al-idrisi and and today's subcontinent map
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Al-Idrisi was born in Morocco, travelled in North Africa and Europe, and entered the service of Roger II King of Sicily for whom he made this map as part of The Book of Pleasant Journeys to Faraway Lands also known as The Book of Roger (Tabula Rogeriana). Arab geographers had translated Ptolemy’s Geography by the end of the 9th century, 600 years before it was done in Europe. Along with travelers’ accounts, it was a source of information for al-Idrisi’s maps. This is only a small section of the larger map; it is oriented with south at the top and, unlike descriptive Medieval European maps that are filled with imagery and text, it is solely concerned with portraying the geography of the Earth. His maps were the most accurate maps of the known world for three centuries.