Word: idrisi
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...Much of Nebenzahl's commentary on the maps focuses on the complex networks of patronage and scholarly collaboration that led to their creation. Inevitably, the maps sometimes flatter the rulers for whom they were drawn. The 12th century Moroccan nobleman Al-Idrisi, for example, produced a world map for Roger II of Sicily that swelled his kingdom so that it was approximately half the size of the Iberian Peninsula. Yet Al-Idrisi also achieved a new level of accuracy by integrating the knowledge of Muslim mariners with that of Christian scholars, so that Asia was at last separated from Africa...
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