Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c19.43
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c19.43
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¹⁰ Abu Abdallah Muhammad Al Idrisi, a native of Ceuta in Morocco and descended from the royal family of the Idrisis of that country, settled at the court of Roger II. of Sicily, where and at whose desire he wrote his book The Nuzhat-ul-Mushtak or The Seeker's Delight. Elliot's History of India, I. 74. Almost all Al Idrisi's special information regarding Sindh and Western India is from Al-Jauhari governor of Khurásán (A.D. 892-992), whose knowledge of Sindh and the Indus valley is unusually complete and accurate. Compare Rénaud's Abulfeda, lxiii.