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Hudud al-'Alam "The regions of the world" : a persian geography 372 A.H.-982 A.D / translated and explained by V. Minorsky ; with the preface by V. V. Barthold ; translated from the Russian and with additional material by the late Professor Minorsky ; edited by C. E. Bosworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bosworth, C. E., Author.
- Bartolʹd, V. V. (Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich), 1869-1930, author of introduction, etc.
- Series:
- Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geography, Medieval.
- Middle East--Geography.
- Middle East.
- Asia--Geography.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (600 p.)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Havertown, Pennsylvania] : Gibb Memorial Trust, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Hudud al-'Alam, written in AD 982 for a Prince of Guzganan (located in the North West of modern Afghanistan), is a geography covering the whole known world and one of the earliest works of Persian prose. It was designed to accompany a map and, though the product of cabinet scholarship rather than original observation, it preserves much material from earlier compositions which are lost and shows originality in its organization. A facsimile edition of the unique MS, which came to light in Bukhara in the late 19th century, was published in Russia in 1930 by Barthold but it was left to Minorsk
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE SECOND SERIES OF ADDENDA
- COMMENTS ON THE TEXTUAL IMPROVEMENTS SUGGESTED BY DR. MANUCHIHR SOTUDEH IN HIS EDITION OF THE PERSIAN TEXT (TEHRAN 1340/1962)
- THE SECOND SERIES OF ADDENDA
- THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
- ADDENDA TO THE ḤUDŪD AL-'ĀLAM
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF MAPS
- PART ONE. V. V. BARTHOLD'S PREFACE
- PART TWO. ḤUDŪD AL-'ĀLAM "THE REGIONS OF THE WORLD"
- PART III COMMENTARY ON THE TRANSLATION OF THE ḤUDŪD AL-'ĀLAM
- DATES OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- 1. Prefatory
- 2. Cosmographic
- 3. The Seas and the Gulfs
- 4. The Islands
- 5. The Mountains
- 6. The Rivers
- 7. The Deserts and Sands
- 8. On the countries
- 9. Chinistān
- 10. India
- 11. Tibet
- 12-17. The South-Eastern Turks
- 12. The Toghuzghuz
- 13. The Yaghmā
- 14. The Khirkhiz
- 15. The Khallukh
- 16. The Chigil
- 17. The Tukhs
- 18-22. The north-western Turks
- 18. The Kimāk
- 19. The Ghūz
- 20. The Turkish Pechenegs
- 21. The Khifchākh (Qipchaq)
- 22. The Majgharĭ
- 23. Khorāsān
- 24. Khorasanian marches
- 25. Transoxiana
- 26. Transoxanian marches
- 27. Sind
- 28. Kirmān
- 29. Fārs
- 30. Khūzistān
- 31. The Jibāl
- 32. Daylamān
- 33. 'Irāq
- 34. Jazĭra
- 35-6. Ādharbādhagān [Armĭniya and Arrān]
- 37. Arabia
- 38. Syria
- 39. Egypt
- 40. Maghrib
- 41. Spain
- 42 . Byzantine Empire
- 43-53. Eastern Europe
- 43. The Slavs
- 44. The Riis
- 45. The Inner Bulghār
- 46. The Mirvāt
- 47· The Khazarian Pechenegs
- 48. The Alan
- 49. The Sarĭr
- 50. The Khazar
- 51. [The Bulkār.]
- 52. Burādhās (?)
- 53. V.n.nd.r.
- 54. Southern Countries
- 55. Zangistān
- 56. Zābaj
- 57. Abyssinia
- 58. Buja
- 59. Nubia
- 60. The Sūdān
- APPENDIX A MARGINAL NOTES IN THE Ḥ.-'A
- APPENDIX B ADDITIONAL NOTES
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781909724730
- 1909724734
- OCLC:
- 910446896
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