- 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...
-
Jibal (mountains of
northeastern Mesopotamia),
highlighting "Summer and
winter resorts of the Kurds", the
Kurdish lands.
Redrawn from Ibn
Hawqal, 977 CE....
- on the
islands of
Malta today. A
description of
Palermo was
given by Ibn
Hawqal, an Arab
merchant who
visited Sicily in 950. A
walled suburb,
called the...
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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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Caspian Sea (Bahr ul-Khazar). 10th
century map by Ibn
Hawqal....
- الممالک) by
Ahmad ibn Sahl Al-balkhi 920.
Surat ul-Ardh (صوره العرض) by Ibn
Hawqal, 977.
Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma'rifat il-Aqalim (احسن التقاسيم في معرفه الاقاليم)...
- were available. An
attempt to
rebuild may have been undertaken,
since Ibn
Hawqal and al-Muqaddasi
refer to it
after that date, but by Al-Biruni's time (1048)...
- the 10th century,
widely used in
Arabic (see Istakhri, al-Maqdisi and ibn
Hawqal) and
Persian texts.
Since 1964, Dari has been the
official name in Afghanistan...
-
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...
