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  2. Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world

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    Islamic regional cartography is usually categorized into three groups: that produced by the "Balkhī school", the type devised by Muhammad al-Idrisi, and the type that are uniquely found in the Book of curiosities. [3] The maps by the Balkhī schools were defined by political, not longitudinal boundaries and covered only the Muslim world.

  3. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    Islamic regional cartography is usually categorized into three groups: that produced by the "Balkhī school", the type devised by Muhammad al-Idrisi, and the type that are uniquely found in the Book of curiosities. [71] The maps by the Balkhī schools were defined by political, not longitudinal boundaries and covered only the Muslim world.

  4. Divisions of the world in Islam - Wikipedia

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    In classical Islamic law, there are three major divisions of the world which are dar al-Islam (lit. ' territory of Islam '), denoting regions where Islamic law prevails, [1] dar al-sulh (lit. territory of treaty) denoting non-Islamic lands which are at peace or have an armistice with a Muslim government, [2] and dar al-harb (lit. territory of war), denoting lands that share a border with dar ...

  5. Muhammad al-Idrisi - Wikipedia

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    Al-Idrisi hailed from the Hammudid dynasty of North Africa and Al-Andalus, which was descended from Muhammad through the powerful Idrisid dynasty. [1] [2] Al-Idrisi was believed to be born the city of Ceuta in 1100, at the time controlled by the Almoravids, where his great-grandfather had been forced to settle after the fall of Hammudid Málaga to the Zirids of Granada. [3]

  6. Regional geography - Wikipedia

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    Regional geography is still taught in some universities as a study of the major regions of the world. In the Western Hemisphere, these may be cultural regions such as Northern and Latin America, or their corresponding geographic regions or continents, namely North and South America, whose "boundaries" differ significantly from the cultural regions.

  7. Arabic geomancy - Wikipedia

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    The word "geomancy", from Late Greek *γεωμαντεία *geōmanteía translates literally to "earth divination"; [3] it is a calque translation of the Arabic term ‛ilm al-raml, or the "science of the sand". Earlier Greek renditions of this word borrowed the Arabic word raml ("sand") directly, rendering it as rhamplion or rabolion.

  8. Influence of Arabic on other languages - Wikipedia

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    The Malay word for bishop is uskup (from Arabic: اسقف usquf = bishop, ultimately from Ancient Greek episkopos [2]). This in turn makes the derived term for "archbishop" uskup agung (literally great bishop), which is combining the Arabic word with an Old Javanese word. The term imam (from Arabic: امام imām = leader, prayer leader) is ...

  9. Glossary of Islam - Wikipedia

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    ʿAbd (عبد) (for male) ʾAmah (أمة) (for female) Servant or worshipper. Muslims consider themselves servants and worshippers of God as per Islam.Common Muslim names such as Abdullah (Servant of God), Abdul-Malik (Servant of the King), Abdur-Rahmān (Slave of the Most Beneficent), Abdus-Salām (Slave of [the originator of] Peace), Abdur-Rahîm (Slave of the Most Merciful), all refer to ...