So apparently Islamic scholars used some sort of seven-clime

source?

https://asadullahali.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/ibn_khaldun-al_muqaddimah.pdf

Pages 101-122, there's a bit of discussion on how the zones were determined preceding it (ctrl+f "zone" should help)

>>1809954
sweet, thanks

>>1809871
Dat map
I dig

>>1809871
It's a pre-islamic thing.

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/clime-kesvar-ancient-division-of-the-earths-surface

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Some long time ago I had on my hands a book on iranian sufism and it's pre-islamic roots, sadly I don't remember the name (but could try to find it if someone is interested.

It talks a bit about those seven climes and that section had this diagram to show how persians perceived the world was, although if I remember well the book also talked about how the concept of seven climates went way beyond geographical division. Maybe post-islamic muslims had a similar concept of them. The names are in spanish but they're basically the same than in english.

Sorry for not having more to offer, I took the photo because it looked interesting and "cool" but didn't pay any special attention to this specific part of the book.