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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iṣṭakhrī, 10th century.

Contributor:

Ibn Hawqual, Abi al-Quāsim Muhammed, active 943-977.

Ḥiwi al-Balkhi, active 9th century.

Ouseley, William, 1767-1842.

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Historical geography.

Middle East--Historical geography.

Egypt--Historical geography.

Egypt.

Middle East.

Middle East Region.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 327 pages : folded map. ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Kitāb masālik wa mamālik

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

English title preceded by title in Persian.

From a Persian version of the "Masālik al-mamālik." cf. Pref., p. iii.

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, 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.

OCLC:

2600505