al-Idrisi / 伊德里希

Overview

al-Idrisi / 伊德里希 appears in the Ceuta episode as the Ceuta-born medieval geographer whose work for Roger II of Sicily becomes evidence that Ceuta belonged to a wider Mediterranean knowledge network.

Current Profile

The source emphasizes al-Idrisi’s geographic and cultural-translation role. Working in Norman Sicily, he gathered world geographic knowledge for Roger II, produced a silver world map that no longer survives, and completed the Book of Roger, which the episode uses to show medieval geographic sophistication and cross-cultural knowledge exchange.

Key Characteristics

• Ceuta-born geographer tied to medieval Mediterranean knowledge circulation.
• Worked in Sicily, a contact zone among Catholic, Byzantine Orthodox, and Islamic cultures in the source.
• Represents Ceuta’s cultural and scholarly importance beyond military value.

Evidence

• Origin evidence: 496 移民潮背后的休达：从古典时代蛮族渡海、伊比利亚「收复失地运动」到葡萄牙大航海 identifies al-Idrisi as from Ceuta.
• Knowledge-network evidence: 496 移民潮背后的休达：从古典时代蛮族渡海、伊比利亚「收复失地运动」到葡萄牙大航海 places him in Norman Sicily and the Roger II project.
• Textual evidence: 496 移民潮背后的休达：从古典时代蛮族渡海、伊比利亚「收复失地运动」到葡萄牙大航海 says the Book of Roger survives and opens with a spherical-earth description.

Qualifications

This page is source-bounded and does not attempt a full biography or textual history of al-Idrisi.

What Changed

• Created the al-Idrisi page for Ceuta’s medieval knowledge-history layer.

Relationships

• Ceuta - birthplace and historical setting in the source.
• Ceuta Imperial Borderland / 休达帝国边地 - broader frame in which scholarly, commercial, and military roles overlap.
• al-Andalus / 安达卢斯 - adjacent Islamic Mediterranean and Iberian knowledge context.