Ibn Mahmud al-Rumi Kadizada; Sharh al-Mulakhkhas(Commentary on the Mulakhkhas)(1427)

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Taken from: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ A commentary on the treatise on astronomy called al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī l̕-haia̕ by Maḥūd ibn Muḥammad, al-Jaghmīnī

 

Equator properties.

And first half of it, which is at the beginning of the first region, begins with a view from the coast of the Arabian Ocean, and passes over Southern Sudan and Magrib, and north of the Qamar Mountains, which are the sources of the Nile, then on the deserts of Sudan and their valleys, from which black eunuchs are brought, then on the north of Zanj islands and most of their countries, then on the center of the islands of Diwah (1) and on the south of the island of Serendib (2) between the two islands Kilha (3) and Sarira (4), then on the islands called the land of gold, ...

The edges of the Zinj and Abyssinia habitation, which is sixteen degrees and twenty-five minutes, but what is considered of them does not reach ten degrees (so the width of the habitation) is according to his claim eighty-two degrees and twenty-five minutes is one thousand and eight hundred thirty-one leagues,…………