919 AH
The Ottoman admiral Piri Reis draws a world map showing the coasts of Africa and the new Americas. Among his sources was a map by Columbus.
How it touches Islam Found in Topkapi Palace in 1929, it is one of the oldest surviving maps to show the Americas.
And to Him belong the ships [with sails] elevated in the sea like mountains.
Quran 55:24
Source: History ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
