Ibn Rusta’s Kitāb al-Aʿlāq al-nafisa and Kitāb al-Buldān by al-Yaʿqūbī: Kitab al-Alaq al-nafisa / tasnif Abi Ali Ahmad b. Umar b. Rusta. Kitab ... Arabicorum, 1-7) (Arabic Edition)
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Ibn Rusta’s Kitāb al-Aʿlāq al-nafisa and Kitāb al-Buldān by al-Yaʿqūbī: Kitab al-Alaq al-nafisa / tasnif Abi Ali Ahmad b. Umar b. Rusta. Kitab ... Arabicorum, 1-7) (Arabic Edition)
Abu Ê¿AlÄ« Aḥmad b. Ê¿Umar Ibn Rusta was born in Isfahan at an unknown date and he flourished in the first decade of the 10th century CE. Only the seventh volume of his KitÄb al-AÊ¿lÄq al-nafÄ«sa has survived. The work deals with mathematical, descriptive and human geography and a variety of historical and other subjects. One of his sources seems to have been a more complete version of Ibn KhurradÄdhbih, which has not survived. The KitÄb al-AÊ¿lÄq al-nafÄ«sa, which has been characterized as an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, is a rich source on the kinds of subjects that interested
the cultivated classes of Ê¿AbbÄsid society. It is published here together with the KitÄb al-buldÄn ('The book of countries') by al-YaÊ¿qÅ«bÄ« (d. c. 905 CE). al-YaÊ¿qÅ«bÄ«'s KitÄb al-buldÄn is an administrative geography based in part on the author's extensive travels, which also contains valuable historical data. For instance, it provides the earliest information about the political history and state-building of the Sudan west of the Nile.







