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page 1Geographical works of the medieval Islamic world
Piri Reis map
Piri Reis's nautical chart
Tabula Rogeriana
1154 work by Muhammad al Idrisi
Dīwān ul-Lughat al-Turk
earliest known dictionary of Turkic Languages
Book of Roads and Kingdoms
Arabic book on geography by Ibn Khordadbeh
The Meadows of Gold
non-fiction work by Al-Mas'udi
rihla
Riḥla () refers to both a journey and the written account of that journey, or travelogue. It constitutes a genre of Arabic literature. Associated with the medieval Islamic notion of "travel in search of knowledge" (الرحلة في طلب العلم), the riḥla as a genre of medieval and early-modern Arabic literature usually describes a journey taken with the intent of performing the Hajj, but can include an itinerary that vastly exceeds that original route. The classical riḥla in medieval Arabic travel literature, like those written by Ibn Battuta (known commonly as The Rihla) and Ibn Jubayr, includes a de
Al-Biruni's India
book by Al-Biruni
Book of Roads and Kingdoms (al-Bakrī)
eleventh-century geography text by Abu Ubayd al-Bakri
Kitab-ı Bahriye
book written by Piri Reis
al-Rawḍ al-miʻṭār fī khabar al-aqṭār
book by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim al-Ḥimyarī
Kitāb al-Masālik wa-'l-mamālik
book by geographer Ibn Hawqal
Ṣifat Jazīrat al-ʻArab
book by Abū Muḥammad al-Hamadānī