The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal,
an Arabian traveller of the tenth century.
Translated from a manuscript in his own possession, collated with one preserved in the library of Eton College, by Sir William Ouseley.

Description

Main Author

Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -957 or 958.

Related Names

Ouseley, William, 1767-1842.
Balkhī, Aḥmad ibn Sahl, 849 or 850-934.
Ibn Ḥawqal, Muḥammad, active 10th century.

Language(s)

English ; Persian

Published

London, Printed by Wilson for T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1800,

Subjects

Egypt > Egypt / Historical geography.
Middle East > Middle East / Historical geography.

Note

Die Istakhrī-Balkhī frage (in Zeitschrift der Deutschen morgenländischen geselischaft, 25. bd., 1871, p. 42-58) and C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen litteratur, 1898, bd. 1, p. 229.
Ascribed by Ouseley in his translation to Muḥammad ibn Ḥauḳal and by Sprenger in the catalogue of his manuscripts (no. 1) to Aḥmad ibn Sahl (Abü Zaid) al-Balkhī. In 921 al-Balkhī wrote a geographical work in which the maps were the important part. Ca. 951, al-Iṣṭakhrī wrote a revision of al-Balkhī's work, commonly known as the "Kitāb al-aḳāiīm," in which he extended the description of places. A second revision of al-Balkhī's work was made ca. 977 by Ibn Ḥauḳal. cf. M. J. de Goeje,
From a Persian version of the "Masālik al-mamālik." cf. Pref., p. iii.
English title preceded by title in Persian.

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xxxvi, 327 p. fold. map. 28 cm.

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