At a glance
- Roles
- geographer · Scientist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- Traveller and observerTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Muhyi al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad, known as Piri Reis. He was a navigation scholar and commander in the Egyptian navy and the Ottoman fleet, and one of the pioneers of nautical cartography 1.
Death and affiliation
He died in 958 AH (1552 CE), according to the "Encyclopedia of the Notable Scholars and Men of Letters". By the museum's data he is Sunni 1.
People and things also explored
The seven climates· The equator· The horizon circle· The earth's sphericity· Measuring the earth· Joining the Red Sea to the Mediterranean· Piri Reis map· Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Piri Reis, Ahmad ibn Muhyi al-Din”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/pir-reis-ahmad-ibn-muhyi-al-din/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.