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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [QB] Distraction doesn't change the fact that ibn Majid, a prolific author as well as scion of a mariner family, was from what was then Oman but is now known as the United Arab Emirates (north of modern Oman). You don't know the name of even one of ibn Majid's works less lone the contents of any of them. Do you know ibn Majid's full name? Besides pinning the original compass invention on a folk loric figure -- al~Kidhr -- Ibn Majid tells us about several different kind of floating magnetized needle compasses already in use by Maghrebis, Egyptians, and Arabs. Ibn Majid never mentioned da Gama but he did write about European navigation around the Cape and of their sailing the Indian Ocean directly from Sofala (which is not what da Gama says about it) including Portuguese settlement in India. There's a whole lot more than just your say so. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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