Abstract
This paper argues that al-Idrīsī’s geography, while pursuing the sovereign interests of the Norman king of Sicily, Roger II, nonetheless critiques Norman empire-building using insular tropes and littoral uncertainty in his description of Britain and the other countries of the seventh climate.
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