The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century (1800)

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. London: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co. for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1800, XXXVI+327 p.

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    This is book (is called Ṣūrat al–’Arḍ (Arabic: صورة الارض; English: The face of the Earth); written in 977) a famous work of Muḥammad Abū’l–Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal (Arabic: محمد أبو القاسم بن حوقل‎; Arab Muslim writer, geographer, and chronicler; died after 368/978). What little is known of his life is extrapolated from his book, which was a revision and extension of the Masālik ul–Mamālik of Istakhri (951). That itself was a revised edition of the Ṣuwar al–aqālīm of Ahmed ibn Sahl al–Balkhi, who wrote about 921.