Zakariyya’ al-Qazwini, also known as Qazvini, was a cosmographer and geographer. […] His most famous work is the ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʾib al-mawjūdāt (lit. ’Wonders of the Creation and Unique [phenomena] of the Existence’), a seminal work in cosmography.