Kitâbu'l-Cogrâfyâ of Ibn Sa'îd el-Magribî Turkish translation of named work with notes

This study is the translation from Arabic to Turkish of Bastu'l-Ard fî'l-Ṭûl va'l-'Ard of İbn Sa'îd el-Maġribî, who lived 13th century, one of the representatives of the Andalusian school of medieval İslamic geography writing, enriched with evaluations and footnotes. For the translation, the publication of this work which had published in Beirut in 1970 under the name of Kitâbu'l-Coġrâfiyâ by the Algerian historian and translater Ismâ'îl al-Arabî was taken as basis. When we look at the content of the work, it is seen that this work tells the inhabitable part of the earth (mamur, oikoumene), based on the horizantal seven bands called climates, which is the characteristic of the Andalusian school. However, the author has added two more parts as "the lands from equator to the south" and "the lands end of the climates" in adddition to the seven climates, which is arranged starting from the equator to the North. Each climate and the additional two parts of the earth contain ten regions, and each region is ordered from west to east. The work begins with Africa below the equator, on which the Canary Islands are based, in the "lands from the equator to the south" part. In this part, which is considered at 16˚ latitude south of the equator, the tip of Africa bends towards the east, while the Indian Sea, which is land on three sides, meets the ocean in the east. After that, the first four climates, starting from the equator and going north, reach 35˚ latitude in the fourth climate in Africa. The easternmost part of the first is the Sınf (Vietnam) and China. After that, places in each climate gradually move towards the north. In the fourth climate, we come across a few places within the borders of Turkey. The author starts by describing Andalusia in the fifth and sixth climates, and gives most of the information within the borders of Turkey in these two climates. From the fifth climate, Yacuc Macuc name appears. At he end of the sixth climate, there is the Great Wall of Yacuc Macuc and al-Bab. The seventh climate, starting from Galicia, mentions the Turks around the Danube. Here we see that the Black Sea region in Turkey is given large coverage. It ends with Yacuc and Macuc after giving information about the Mongols and Turkish tribes in the East. "The lands behind the climates" begin with Britain, England, Ireland and France and include the Black Sea in this part. In the first part of this four-part study, İbn Sa'îd's life and his works are introduced. The majoraty of the information in this section, in which the author's upbringing, education, outlook on life, travels and works are explained, is provided from the introductory section, where el-Arabî, who published this work in Arabic, gave a large space. In the second part, general evaluation of this work is taking place. Here, there are evaluations about the author's method, sources and wether there is a relationship between the places he describes and travels in the work. In the third part, the subjects related to Anatolia, which are widely included in the translated text, are explained under a separate title, over the geographical regions within the borders of today's Turkey, and the information given in each region is tried to be evaluated. In this framework, it is aimed to add originality to the work with a separate evaluation of the original information about Anatolia given by the relevant work. The fourth part consist of the Turkish translation of Bastu'l-Ard fî al-Ṭûl ve al-'Ard, which is the main subject of this study. In this section where many places are mentioned, enriched sometimes with el-Arabî's notes, sometimes with our notes, where these notes are not enough.