Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne : texte arabe publié pour la première fois d'après les manuscrits de Paris et d'Oxford avec une traduction, des notes et un glossaire par R. Dozy et M.J. de Goeje / par Edrîsî.
By: Idrīsī
Contributor(s): Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne | Goeje, M. J. de (Michael Jan)
Language: French, Arabic Original language: Arabic Publisher: Leyde : E. J. Brill, 1866.Description: xxiii, 391, 242 p.; 24 cm.Uniform titles: Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq. French Subject(s): Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | Spain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800Ownership: ANE copy has the bookplate of Percy E. NewberrySummary: 'Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne' offers a partial edition of the Arabic descriptive geography by Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad al-Idrisi (d.c. 560 AH/1165 CE) entitled 'Kitab Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi' khtiraq al-afaq'. The author lived at the court of the Norman King Roger II in Sicily where he composed this work for him. Little is known about al-Idrisi's life, except that he had travelled extensively and had acquired first-hand information about the areas he described in the Nuzhat, which is also known as the Book of Roger. It includes a translation into French, with notes, a glossary (Arabic-French), and Index.
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Includes index.
Added t.p. in Arabic.
'Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne' offers a partial edition of the Arabic descriptive geography by Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad al-Idrisi (d.c. 560 AH/1165 CE) entitled 'Kitab Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi' khtiraq al-afaq'. The author lived at the court of the Norman King Roger II in Sicily where he composed this work for him. Little is known about al-Idrisi's life, except that he had travelled extensively and had acquired first-hand information about the areas he described in the Nuzhat, which is also known as the Book of Roger. It includes a translation into French, with notes, a glossary (Arabic-French), and Index.
French and Arabic text.
ANE copy has the bookplate of Percy E. Newberry.