Some imitation Islamic coins minted in early medieval Europe — updated map etc and links :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/03/some-imitation-islamic-coins.html …pic.twitter.com/xmzX5Wa964
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A 16thC copy of al-Idrisi's original 12thC Arabic map of Ireland, from Oxford's MS Pococke 375: http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/6uyzd6 …pic.twitter.com/XQ3tFNuWgD
@VoxHib Fascinating. Is it absolutely certain that it is Ireland? Perhaps in context...
Pretty sure he's talking about Norse in Ireland...
other Arab sources for medieval Ireland?
That's a standard one :) I use it in post on Byzantium etc https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/721621412037992448 … OCR a bit dodgy tho' in places >
>in that version! Also article misses out this al-Idrisi section on Ireland: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744102718336303104 … This transl'd >
> in Beeston, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 13.2 (1950), pp. 265-80; should be on jstor :)
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