So I just wrote a paper on a section of al-idrisi's book, you may already have found this out, but the only full translation into a European vernacular is in french and from the 19th century. There is a new and better translation of the western half of the book from the 1990s, also into french. Other than that a number of papers explore his descriptions of (mostly european regions) and contain translations of sections of the text so you might be able to find some more info on that, however a lot of the papers are not in english.
Never underestimate the imagination of medieval people.
this is such an incredibly original worldbuilding idea and I LOVE it
That was packed! Not a minute of my time was wasted.
I had an idea to do something similar with Lucian's A True Story into a some kind of ttrpg setting guide.
So I just wrote a paper on a section of al-idrisi's book, you may already have found this out, but the only full translation into a European vernacular is in french and from the 19th century. There is a new and better translation of the western half of the book from the 1990s, also into french. Other than that a number of papers explore his descriptions of (mostly european regions) and contain translations of sections of the text so you might be able to find some more info on that, however a lot of the papers are not in english.
Yeah, that's about what I'd found. I think I've found translations of all the parts I need.
am I in history class?