Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne
Subtitle: 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
By: par Edrîsî
Contributors: Goeje, M. J. de (Michael Jan), 1836-1909, translator; Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, 1820-1883, translator; Idrīsī, approximately 1100-1166
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: fre
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9789004293366
Subjects: Description and travel
Other titles: Ṣifat al-Maghrib wa-arḍ al-Sūdān wa-Miṣr wa-al-Andalus, maʼkhūdhah min Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq
Work titles: Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq
Description: 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. Originally published by Brill in 1866, this edition of the Arabic text concerning Africa and the Iberian Peninsula by R. Dozy and M.J. de Goeje was based on the Paris and Oxford manuscripts. It includes a translation into French, with notes, a glossary (Arabic-French), and Index.
Notes: Added title page in Arabic.

Arabic text [242] pages at end.

Facsimile reprint. Originally published: Leyde : E.J. Brill, 1866.