The East African part of a medieval map of one of the many mss of Pseudo ibn al Wardi | |||||
Back to Table of Contents To next page Ishaq Ibn al-Housain (950); Kitab akam al-mardjan fi dhikr al-madan al machhoura fi houll makan (Book of pieces of coral about towns well known and all places) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Taken from: Youssouf KamaltomIIIfasc2 The Nile comes out of the lands of the Soudan and out of the Djabal al-Qamar south of the equator, nobody ever reached its origin. |