Ahmad ibn Majid

Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Majid was born at the beginning of the fifteenth century and grew up in Julfar, the forerunner of Ras al-Khaimah, in a family of pilots: his father and his grandfather taught navigation, and his father's long poem on the Red Sea guided him. He wrote nearly forty works, most of them in verse, on the stars, the routes and the coasts of the Indian Ocean, among them a great didactic poem in 1462. His trace is lost around 1500.

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• EssayArab Navigation in the Indian Ocean before the Coming of the Portugueseكتاب الفوائد في أصول علم البحر والقواعدAhmad ibn Majid · 1490Literature