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Kitāb al-Masalik wa l-mamālik by Abū Isḥāq al-Iṣṭakhrī: viae regnorum : descriptio ditionis Moslemicae
Little is known about the life of Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhim b. Muḥammad al-Iṣṭakhrī, the author of Kitāb al-Masalik wa l-mamālik , which was written towards the end of the first half of the 10th century CE. The work built on the earlier concept of the "atlas of Islam", which it developed furth ...
كتاب صورة الارض, Viae et regna: descriptio ditionis Moslemicae, صورة الأرض
The journeys of Abū l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal, who might have been a merchant, took him to North Africa, Spain and the southern edge of the Sahara (947-51), Egypt, Armenia and Azerbaijan (c. 955), the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Khuzistan, and Iran (961-69), Khwarazm and Transoxania (c. 969), and Sicily ( ...