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Ibn Rusta's Kitāb al-Aʿlāq al-nafisa and Kitāb al-Buldān by al-Yaʿqūbī

Ibn Rusta's Kitāb al-Aʿlāq al-nafisa and Kitāb al-Buldān by al-Yaʿqūbī

De Goeje, M. J.

Paperback

Series: Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum, Book 1

Travel GeneralGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004258744
ISBN13: 9789004258747
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 5 2013
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: Arabic
Abu ʿAlī Aḥmad b. ʿUmar Ibn Rusta was born in Isfahan at an unknown date and he flourished in the first decade of the 10th century CE. Only the seventh volume of his Kitāb al-Aʿlāq al-nafīsa has survived. The work deals with mathematical, descriptive and human geography and a variety of historical and other subjects. One of his sources seems to have been a more complete version of Ibn Khurradādhbih, which has not survived. The Kitāb al-Aʿlāq al-nafīsa, which has been characterized as an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, is a rich source on the kinds of subjects that interested the cultivated classes of ʿAbbāsid society. It is published here together with the Kitāb al-buldān ('The book of countries') by al-Yaʿqūbī (d. c. 905 CE). al-Yaʿqūbī's Kitāb al-buldān is an administrative geography based in part on the author's extensive travels, which also contains valuable historical data. For instance, it provides the earliest information about the political history and state-building of the Sudan west of the Nile.

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