Scientific and cognitive motives in the study of offshore islands among Arab and Muslim geographers

Alfahdawy, Mohmmed Sabah

doi:10.37653/juah.2023.179125

	Scientific and cognitive motives in the study of offshore islands among Arab and Muslim geographers
Journal of University of Anbar for Humanities
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 18 June 2023
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.37653/juah.2023.179125
Author
Mohmmed Sabah Alfahdawy^*
جامعة الانبار
Abstract
Arab and Muslim geographers have made great contributions to the development of geographic knowledge in general, and to the increase in information about the land, its divisions, and the dry and water on it, including seas, oceans and rivers, as well as dividing it into regions. And they had a prominent role in mentioning one of the important geographical features, namely the islands, both marine and river types. However, their greatest interest was about the offshore islands and their locations and extensions in the seas of the earth known to them. Behind this knowledge was a set of motives, the most important of which were scientific and epistemological, as geographers contributed to increasing knowledge about these islands and separated them from their inhabitants, their agricultural and industrial products, the minerals they contain, the natures of their people, their customs and traditions, as well as their locations on the shipping routes to be stations for the comfort of seafarers. They provided their geographical books with maps to determine the locations of the islands despite the different maps among them. The Arab and Muslim geographers were credited with knowing these islands and increasing information about them, based on scientific and cognitive motives urged by Islam
Keywords
offshore islands,,; ,،,؛scientific motives,,; ,،,؛cognitive motives

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