Geographers of the medieval Islamic world

14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer

andalusian geographer (1100–1165)

Turkic scholar and lexicographer

Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān (), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (; November 127327 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.

Arab traveller and geographer

Iranian writer and scholar

Arab navigator and cartographer

Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd-al-Ḥayy ibn Żaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardīzī (), better known as Gardizi (), was an 11th-century Persian historian and official, who is notable for having written the Zayn al-akhbar, one of the earliest history books written in New Persian.

Medieval Arab scholar

navigator of Al-Andalus

Medieval muslim traveller

12th-century Arab merchant and traveler in China