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Aerial View of the Arab world. Most of the Arab world falls in the driest region of the world. Almost 80% of it is covered in desert (10,666,637 of 13,333,296 km2), stretching from Mauritania and Morocco to Oman and the UAE. [citation needed] The second most common terrain is the semi-arid terrain, which found in all Arab countries except ...
Ghazi-Walid Falah (Arabic: غازي فلاح, Hebrew: ראזי פלאח) is a Bedouin Israeli Palestinian-Canadian geographer, who was a tenured professor at the University of Akron, Ohio. He is an expert on political, social and urban geography of the Middle East and the Arab World, with special emphasis on Israel.
Gamal Hamdan (1928–1993), an Egyptian thinker, intellect and professor of geography. Best known for The Character of Egypt, Studies of the Arab World, and The Contemporary Islamic World Geography, which form a trilogy on Egypt's natural, economic, political and cultural character and its position in the world.
Geography portal Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ... Pages in category "Arab geographers" The following 4 pages are in ...
Al-Idrisi's world map from 'Alî ibn Hasan al-Hûfî al-Qâsimî's 1456 copy. According to the French National Library, "Ten copies of the Kitab Rujar or Tabula Rogeriana exist worldwide today. Of these ten, six contain at the start of the work a circular map of the world which is not mentioned in the text of al-Idris". The original text dates ...
The political borders of the Arab world have wandered, leaving Arab minorities in non-Arab countries of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa as well as in the Middle Eastern countries of Cyprus, Turkey and Iran, and also leaving non-Arab minorities in Arab countries. However, the basic geography of sea, desert and mountain provides the enduring ...
Drysdale serves on the editorial board of The Northeastern Geographer (2007–) [6] and the Arab World Geographer (1998–), for whom he was also the North American book review editor (1998–2007). [7] He also served on the international advisory board of the journal Geopolitics (1996–2007). [8]
ʻAlī Ibn Ḥawqal al-Naṣībī, born in Nisibis, Upper Mesopotamia; [1] was a 10th-century Arab [2] Muslim writer, geographer, and chronicler who travelled from AD 943 to 969. [3] His famous work, written in 977, is called Surat Al-Ard (صورة الارض; "The face of the Earth"). The date of his death, known from his writings, was after ...