Two worldmaps with the Kaba as its centre from the work of Al Farisis
Al Farisis: Tuhfat al Raghib
(The new desirer and the challengers) (13th) Aden

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Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Farisi (d. 1278), an Iranian Islamic astronomer and astrologer born in Aden. He is the author of al-Tuḥfa, which includes a treatise containing important information for the history of Islamic astronomy and its connection with the religion of Islam. He gives the direction of the prayer for a number of places in East Africa.
Taken from: Volkstumliche Astronomie im islamischen Mittelalter: zur Bestimmung der Gebetszeiten und der Qibla
bei al-Asbahi, Ibn Rahiq und al-Farisi

Full name: Muhammad b. Abi Bakr al Farisis

Full name book: Tuhfat al raghib wa-turfat al-talib fi taysir al-nayyiraya wa-harakat al kawahib: The book (full) of the
new desirer and the challengers on the orbits of the two shining and the movements of the planets

 

Folio 30b.8

Out of the Ka’ba

Between the southern corner and the old (and now) blocked door.

Places

Bilad al-Habasha, Zanj, Zayla (1), Barbarah (2), Muqadisuh and other places in this direction.

Stars

Rising of al-Thurayya (3) on the right side of al-Qutb al-Shimali (4) on the left side

Winds

Saba (5) on the right cheek Dabur (6) Janub (7) on the left shoulder on the right shoulder

 

Folio 37a.R2

Out on the Ka'ba

From the southern corner up to one third of the wall in the direction of the locked door

Places

Al Habasha al Zanj, al Zayla (1) and Akhar bilad al Sudan (8).

Stars

Rising of al-Thurayya (3) al qutb on the right side of the left side

(1) Zayla: Zeila in N Somalia close to Djibouti.

(2) Barbarah: Here the Berbera in North Somalia.

(3) Thurayya: Pleiades.

(4) al-Qutb al-Shimali: the North Pole star.

(5) Saba: Saba wind; the north-easterly wind

(6) Dabur wind: the south west wind

(7) Janub wind: the south east wind

(8) bilad al Sudan: literally land of the blacks