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Muslim scholars made advances to the map-making traditions of earlier cultures, [1] explorers and merchants learned in their travels across the Old World (Afro-Eurasia). [1] Islamic geography had three major fields: exploration and navigation, physical geography , and cartography and mathematical geography . [ 1 ]
The Sidra al-Muntaha ( Arabic: سِدْرَة ٱلْمُنْتَهَىٰ, romanized : Sidra al-Muntahā, lit. 'Lote Tree of the Farthest Boundary') in Islamic theology is a large lote or sidr tree ( Ziziphus spina-christi) [ 1] that marks the utmost boundary in the seventh heaven, where the knowledge of the angels ends. During the Isra and Mi ...
Angel Blowing a Woodwind, ink and opaque watercolor painting from Safavid Iran, c. 1500, Honolulu Academy of Arts.. The Quranic word for angel (Arabic: ملك, romanized: malak) derives either from Malaka, meaning "he controlled", due to their power to govern different affairs assigned to them, [18] or from the triliteral root '-l-k, l-'-k or m-l-k with the broad meaning of a "messenger", just ...
Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe. A Christian and a Muslim playing chess, illustration from the Book of Games of Alfonso X (c. 1285). [ 1] During the High Middle Ages, the Islamic world was at its cultural peak, supplying information and ideas to Europe, via Al-Andalus, Sicily and the Crusader kingdoms in the Levant.
Islamic cosmography. Kuyūthā ( Arabic: كيوثاء) is the cosmic bull in medieval Islamic cosmography. It is said to carry on its back the angel who shoulders the earth and the rock platform upon which the angel stands. The bull is said to stand on the giant fish or whale, Bahamut . The bull is variously described as having 40,000 horns and ...
In the calendar of the Church of England diocese of Truro, 8 May is the feast of St. Michael, Protector of Cornwall. The archangel Michael is one of the three patron saints of Cornwall. [ 136] The feast of the Appearing of S. Michael the Archangel is observed by Anglo-Catholics on 8 May. [ 137]
Island of the Jewel. The chorographic map of the Island of the Jewel from the 1037 MS of al-Khwārizmī 's Book of the Description of the Earth. [ 1][ 2] (North is to the left.) A detail of the Indian Ocean from a modern reconstruction of al-Khwārizmī 's world map, showing the Island of the Jewel lying beyond the far eastern peninsula.
Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God ( Allah) [ 1] and that Muhammad is His last Messenger. [ 2][ 3] The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Islam.