Does the map of Al-Idrisi indicate the location of Gog and Magog?

What is the Idrisi map?

There were many maps that were drawn hundreds of years before digital navigation applications put the world

maps in our hands, as people depended on the research and work of scientists and cartographers in order to clarify the world, and he was one of the most famous of these painters who made a map The early world geographer and traveler (Al-Idrisi), who Al-Idrisi painted the world upside down, and this was a strange thing at the time , and in Al-Idrisi’s book he talks about the journey of a person who was keen to cross the regions of the world, and his map was one of the greatest works of geography and cartography in middle Ages.

Who is Al-Idrisi?

Al-Idrisi’s name was famous because of the map he drew of the world in the past, and it is worth noting that he is the geographer, traveler and Arab Muslim researcher “Abu Abdullah Muhammad

bin Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Idris Al Sharif Al Idrisi”, and although Al-Idrisi’s life is not known much about it. The information is, but there is a possibility that he was born in the city of  Ceuta in Morocco, around the year 1100 AD. Al-Idrisi attended a university in Cordoba, Spain and traveled through North Africa and the Mediterranean region in Europe and Spain.

In 1145 AD, Al-Idrisi worked as an advisor to King (Roger II), who was the King of Sicily at this time, as the king hired the scientist and geographer Al-Idrisi in order to create a modern map

of the world, and then Al-Idrisi sent travelers and geographers around the world to collect information for that map and other maps. 

Did Idrissi map the location of Gog and Magog?

Yes, Al- Idrisi's map identified the

location of Gog and Magog, in which Al-Idrisi drew the world upside down on that large map that was encountered in an Iraqi office in the State of Kuwait, a short time ago. From the American conquest of the country, it showed the most densely populated quarter in the world, the northern part of the eastern hemisphere, with Africa wrapping along the upper part, Italy which seemed to pour Europe on the bottom, and a few islands on the left making up the East Indies, The map also identified a squiggle in Arabic of all the places familiar to us, such as Damascus and Rome, along with the mysterious “Cuckoo Land” located near what is now (Mozambique), and the gates of Gog and Magog at the lower left in distant Siberia. Al-Idrisi’s map was It is a secret to the world, because the shameful old American maps now put Washington, DC somewhere between Baghdad and Mecca, which is of course wrong, and one of the posters said that this is a copy that the Iraqi Geological Survey printed in 1956 AD, of the mappa mundi that Made by the Moroccan geographer Abu Abdullah bin Idrisi in 1154 AD.

Al-Idrisi's words about Gog and Magog

Al-Idrisi spoke in his book (Nuzha Al-Mushtaq fi Takhruq Al-Afaq) about the journey in which the location of Gog and Magog was known, and thus Al-Idrisi put it on his map, and the following is what the great scientist and geographer Al-Idrisi said:

“The trustworthy in God, when he saw in a dream that the dam built by Dhul-Qarnayn between us and Gog and Magog was open, brought the interpreter, who spoke thirty tongues, and said to him, Go and look at this dam, and he brought me his news and his condition, and what it is, then he ordered his companions to walk with him. They numbered sixty men and connected him to 5,000 dinars and gave him his blood money of ten thousand dirhams, and ordered each of his companions to receive fifty thousand dirhams, a year’s provisions, and 100 mules carrying water and provisions, and ordered men to wear felts, which are garments of wool and hair.

And carry a message of peace

From the Caliph to Ishaq bin Ismail, the owner of an Armenian city in Tbilisi, and the owner of an Armenian letter wrote a recommendation for them to the owner of the bed, and that was written to them to the owner of the land, and so on to the villa of Shah and Tarkhan, the king of the Khazars, who sent with them five guides who walked with them twenty-five days until they came to a black, stinking land The smell, “We traveled there for ten days, then we arrived at ruined cities. We explored them for twenty days and asked about their news. We were told what the cities were destroyed by Gog and Magog. Then we reached fortresses near the mountain from which the dam is located, and in those forts there are people who speak Arabic and Persian. Muslims read the Qur’an and they have books and mosques, and between every fortress and another farsakhan, then we arrived at a city called (Ikeh) with iron gates and farms, and it was the one that Dhul-Qarnayn used to bring down with his army, between it and the dam a three-day journey, then we came to a high mountain, on it. It is a fortress, and the dam built by Dhul-Qarnayn is a gap between two mountains, its width is two hundred cubits, and it is the road from which they come out, so they disperse in the earth, and its foundation is dug thirty cubits.And he built it with iron and copper, then he raised two jambs on the side of the mountain from the two sides of the valley, each of them twenty-five cubits wide and fifty cubits thick, and it was all built with mud hidden in copper, and on the two jambs an iron upper threshold of 120 cubits long, and above it was a masonry of iron brick to the top of the mountain and its height. farsightedness.”

So the building above the threshold shall be 60 cubits, and above that there is an iron balustrade, in each veranda two horns flexing one over the other, the length of each veranda five cubits by four, and upon it thirty-seven balconies, and an iron door with two hanging shutters, the width of each shutter being 50 cubits by 75 cubits in Five cubits thick, and two upright, revolving around the threshold, no wind could enter through the door, nor the mountain, and upon the door was a lock seven cubits long, thick, sold in a roundabout, and the lock was not embraced by two men. The length of the lock, and its two gates, each one is two cubits, and on the lock is a hanging key, the length of which is a cubit and a half, and it has 21 teeth, and the roundness of the key is four handfuls. It is suspended in a chain welded to the door, the length of which is eight cubits by four handfuls. cubit, and with the door two fortresses, each of two hundred cubits.

“In one of the forts there is a construction machine with which the dam was built, made of iron pots and iron ladles, and there is a remnant of the mud that has stuck together due to rust, and the head of those forts rides every Monday and Thursday, and they inherit that door as the caliphs inherit, knocking on the door for him. A thundering sound, and the purpose of it is to hear it from behind the door, so that they know that there are guards and that the door is still intact, and on the shutter of the right door is written, so if the promise of my Lord comes, He will make it dark, and the promise of my Lord is true, and the mountain from the outside has no board or foot, and no vegetation or grass or anything else on it That, which is a flat, wide, smooth, white mountain.”