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.

Name: 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.
Author: Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -957 or 958

Title	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.
Author	Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -957 or 958
Publication Date:	1800,
Publication Place	London -
Subject	Middle East—Historical geography[Browse]Egypt—Historical geography[Browse]
Type	kitap
Language	eng,fas
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	327
Physical Dimensions	xxxvi, 327 p. fold. map. 28 cm.
Library:	Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID	2600505
Record ID	9927205243506421
Date	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.

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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.

Author Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -957 or 958

Publication Date 1800,

Publication Place London -

Subject Middle East—Historical geography[Browse]Egypt—Historical geography[Browse]

Type kitap

Language eng,fas

Digital No

Manuscript No

Pages Count 327

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

Library Princeton University Library

Library Asset ID 2600505

Record ID 9927205243506421

Date 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.