- Muḥammad Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn
Ḥawqal (محمد أبو القاسم بن حوقل), also
known as Abū al-Qāsim b. ʻAlī Ibn
Ḥawqal al-Naṣībī, born in Nisibis,
Upper Mesopotamia;...
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geography and
travel written by the
merchant traveler Abul
Qasim Muhammad Ibn
Hawqal following his travels,
which commenced in 331 AH. The work was influenced...
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important of
these are the
Islamic geographers al-Yaqubi (9th century), Ibn
Hawqal and al-Aswani (10th century), who both
visited the country, and the Copt...
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Jibal (mountains of
northeastern Mesopotamia),
highlighting "Summer and
winter resorts of the Kurds", the
Kurdish lands.
Redrawn from Ibn
Hawqal, 977 CE....
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Caspian Sea (Bahr ul-Khazar). 10th
century map by Ibn
Hawqal....
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Istakhri met the
celebrated traveller-geographer Ibn
Hawqal,
while travelling, and Ibn
Hawqal incorporated the work of
Istakhri in his book
Kitab al-Surat...
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Approximate extension of
Alodia based on
accounts of Ibn
Hawqal...
- Baghdad. At the end of the 10th century, the
traveler and
geographer Ibn
Hawqal wrote that he ate some nāṭif in
Manbij (in
modern Syria) and
Bukhara (in...
- (dating from c. 920) and
mentioned in
works by some of his
followers (Ibn
Hawqal, Al-Istakhri,
Hudud ul-'alam). The two
other centers were
Arthaniya (Arabic:...
- East at the top,
Europe on the left and
North Africa on the right. Ibn
Hawqal was an Arab
scientist of the 10th
century who
developed a
world map, based...
