What were famed Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta’s first impressions of Sharjah more than 700 years ago? And how did Emirati navigator Ahmad Ibn Majid shape the course of maritime history? These ...

Historic manuscripts and rare documents, on display until July 5, illuminate Ibn Majid’s pivotal role in global seafaring and astronomical sciences. The House of Wisdom in Sharjah is currently ...

Though only seen in a photograph in Broken Pieces, Captain Alonzo Vandermeer commanded the USS Ibn Majid, Cristóbal Rios's previous posting. When the ship encountered a pair of androids in the ...

According Michael Chabon's Instagram, the USS ibn Majid is a Curiosity-class starship, possibly named after the Curiosity rover on Mars (in real life, not in Star Trek life). The ship itself is ...

BAGHDAD: Iraq's Ibn Majid State Company is currently manufacturing a furnace for crude oil refining for the Diwaniya Refinery and giant reservoirs for the South Refineries Company (SRC) at a total ...

Fifteenth Century Arab navigator and cartographer Ahmad Ibn Majid was once so famous that he was described by some researchers as the first Arab seaman and a pioneering author in oceanography.

Visitors to the futuristic Alif - the Mobility Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai are to be dwarfed by nine-metre-tall, photo-realistic figures from the Golden Age of Arab civilisation, including ancient ...

Visitors to the futuristic Alif – the Mobility Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai will be dwarfed by nine-metre-tall, photo-realistic figures of ancient navigator Ahmad Ibn Majid and celebrated ...

Visitors to the futuristic Alif – the Mobility Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai are to be dwarfed by nine-metre-tall, photo-realistic figures from the Golden Age of Arab civilisation.

Ahmad Ibn Majid, a great Muslim navigator, born in the 15th century in Julfar (present-day Ras Al Khaimah), and nicknamed ‘The Lion of the Sea’, wrote many works of literature on marine ...

Exhibition offers new insights into Ibn Majid's contributions to maritime science Historic manuscripts and rare documents, on display until July 5, illuminate Ibn Majid’s pivotal role in global ...