Muhammad al-Idrisi also known as Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qutubi al-Hasani al-Sabti was a Muslim cartographer, geographer, traveler and Egyptologist famous for his travels all over Europe, Africa and Asia and mapping the regions he travelled in. The maps drawn by him were often corrections of the existing maps at that time which showed inaccurate geography of the regions in question. He was the descendant of a long line of Princes, Sufi leaders and Caliphs down to the Prophet Muhammad. He was the immediate descendant of the ‘Hammudis’ who ruled Andalusia around 1016 to 1058 AD and were an offshoot of the ‘Idrisids’ who ruled during the period 789-985 AD. He acquired geographic information by sending men to far off lands accompanied by draftsmen. When these men returned with the information about these lands he used the data collected by them to update the geographical treatise he had created with the information received from Greek and Arabic geographers. He took almost eighteen years to compile all the information and create a map of the world which was very accurate and had never been created before. This map was one of his greatest creations in the pre-modern era. The voluminous treatise has a large amount of detail about Europe in the 12th century.