from: Marvels of Creatures and Strange Things Existing, by al-Qazwini 

This copiously illustrated Persian manuscript was made in 974 of the Hijrah [i.e. A.D. 1566] and is a translation of the cosmography, or `Wonders of creation’, originally written in Arabic by the thirteenth-century geographer Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini. The miniature shown here illustrates the path of the sun’s rays interrupted by the globe of the Earth at the time of a lunar eclipse.

Zakariya’ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (1203 -1283), was a Persian physician, astronomer, geographer and proto-science fiction writer. Born in the Persian town of Qazvin, he served as legal expert and judge (qadhi) in several localities in Persia and at Baghdad. He travelled around in Mesopotamia and Syria, and finally entered the circle patronized by the governor of Baghdad.

he also wrote a futuristic proto-science fiction tale entitled Awaj bin Anfaq, about a man who travelled to Earth from a distant planet.