The interview has been edited and condensed. A map of the world from a 17th-century copy of Qazwini’s work at the Beinecke Library. As with most Islamic maps, south is at the top of the map and the ...

A British copy called The Wall Chart of World History, was published in 1890 by the Irish geologist Edward Hull (ca 1829-1917). It was incorrectly attributed to him when he added a geological strata, ...