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A piece of artwork that depicts a circle in the center. The "book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands," or "Book of Roger," Tabula Rogeriana. 16th-century (1553 AD) manuscript of al-Idrisi's description of the world composed in 1152. This manuscript contains the complete text of al-Idrisi's medieval Arabic geography, describing the known world from the equator to the latitude of the Baltic Sea, and from the Atlantic to Siberia.

The Glass Palace of Comparison: Rūḥī al-Khālidī on Arabic and the Place of Africa, in Theory

In a pioneering study of Arabic and French literatures published in Cairo (1902–1904, 1904, 1912), the Ottoman-Palestinian intellectual Rūḥī al-Khālidī forges Arabic literary modernity . . . 

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