Talk:Muhammad al-Idrisi

message: Probably worth including under "in popular culture", he has a landform on Pluto named after him, referenced here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geological_features_on_Pluto#Montes  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.114.68.72 (talk) 18:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I moved it to Muhammad al-Idrisi for consistency with Ahmad ibn Fadlan (first name plus characteristic (geographical) name, not just (al-)Idrisi, but not full name either). I adjusted all redirects (no multiple redirects should be left). dab 22:29, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  page move 

message: *Halló, google "&as_sitesearch=en.wikipedia.org&as_q=Idrisi" shows different examples of name usage inside en.wikipedia. How to write the short form of the name: al-Idrisi or Al-Idrisi? If agreement for the short form will be achieved: How to write it at the beginning of a sentence (starting with a majuscle or not)? Gangleri 23:41, 2004 Oct 17 (UTC)
:Way late, but for anyone sle confused: Treat it like the first character of any sentence. That means a Majuscle even though the word "that" is normally written in minuscle. --Enyavar (talk) 14:50, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  consistent name usage 

message: I've uploaded two image files with what look like better copies of the Idrisi map than the one given in the article; both are thumbnailed here for comparison. I suggest the use of either one of these as they include more detail. The one thing about the existing article image is that the map copy is south-oriented just like al-Idrissi's original, but the north-oriented ones are more helpful for comparison with the actual shape in modern maps.
 The first one is given in the link to "the map" in the section "usefull information " on this talk page. The link's address is http://www.historisches-franken.de/andechs_geheimnis/technik_weltkarte431.htm. The second one is from a google search.  Note that both these copies are north-oriented. --Scriber 02:48, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: these are not original, they appear to be european copies. Pure inuyasha 01:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: that is correct, all these world maps are later-age reconstructions or copies. The second map has since been deleted from commons, apparently copyright issue. --Enyavar (talk) 14:50, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map image may not be the best choice 

message: :"al-Idrisi constructed a world globe map of 400 Kg pure silver and precisely recorded on it the seven continents with trade routes, lakes and rivers, major cities, and plains and mountains." 
How can he have recorded all seven continents in the early 12th century? Honestly.
::Done, Has long since been removed. --Enyavar (talk) 14:50, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seven continents? 

message: Acording to all  this diferent, no?... because if Almoravid was a Empre, and he born in Ceuta, Spain... when I  talk about Morocco?Bokpasa 19:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not understand what you mean, but the Almoravids are the name of a ruling dynasty not a country. Claiming Al-idrisi to Spain because he is born in a city controlled today by Spain is completely wrong.--A Jalil 13:29, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Is not city controlled today by Spain, its a Spanisch city. Acording to Larousse, Almoravids was a Empire, dynasty and a sect. The begening of Almoravids was Senegal and Mauhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Muhammad_al-Idrisi&action=edit§ion=10#
Bokpasa 08:53, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Al-Idrisi was born in Ceuta when that city was still part of Morocco, ruled by the Almoravid dynasty. Spain as a country did not exist at that time. S711 (talk) 21:33, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Morocco was part of Almoravid Empire, as Algeria and Portugal. Almoravid was country and islamic sect and a dynasty. Its different!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.30.61.7 (talk) 10:40, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Let us stick to what is common usage under historians. They say that the Morocco was ruled by the Almoravid dynasty and that Ceuta was a part of Morocco at that time (UNESCO, General History of Africa II, Africa from the seventh to the eleventh century, p. 336-435, The Almoravids). If you disagree please cite a source to back it up.S711 (talk) 10:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muslim vs. Morroco 

message: The section "Chief work and achievement" needs a more thorough re-writing as it was lifted by an editor (now banned for copyright violation) from http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Sicily1.pdf. This is copyright 2003, 2004 of FSTC Limited (Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation). - Fayenatic (talk) 09:01, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now removed the section that was in violation of copyright. The above link may provide a useful source for an editor who wishes to expand the article, but any text from it must be rewritten, not copied. - Fayenatic (talk) 06:53, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation 

message: I tagged the "Legacy" section as unreferenced. It was part of this edit, the rest of which was removed for copyright violation. (I got involved because I had previously spent an hour wikifying one of the same contributor's new articles, before that got deleted for copyvio.) This still includes the WP:PEACOCK sentence that "He was so remarkable that he was nicknamed the strobe of the Arabs" -- and I am not sure what the latter means anyway. User:Attilios removed the tag on 5 Sept but as he has not responded to a longer note on his talk page, I have reinstated the tag. - Fayenatic (talk) 19:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Legacy section

message: The illustration is upside down. Can someone smarter than me turn it over? Thanks. 155.213.224.59 (talk) 17:41, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone with the same problem, please check out :File:TabulaRogeriana upside-down.jpg (north up = reversed) and :File:Tabula Rogeriana 1929 copy by Konrad Miller.jpg (south up = "original"). Enjoy. --Enyavar (talk) 14:50, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tabular Rogeriana 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Muhammad al-Idrisi's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "harley":
From Tabula Rogeriana: Harley & Woodward, 1992, pp. 156–161.
From Age of Discovery: Harley & Woodward, 1992, pp. 156–61.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 00:03, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Muhammad al-Idrisi]] 

message: The al-Idrisi who wrote an account of the Pyramids (discussed in El-Daly's book) is a different figure (Abu Jacfar Muhammad Ibn cAbd Al-cAziz al-Idrisi, d. 1251). This section should be removed from this page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.29.69.171 (talk) 23:10, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Sorry about that. --Kansas Bear (talk) 00:24, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egyptology