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Al-Mas'udi composed his 'Kitab al-Tanbih wal-ishraf' in the years 955 and 956, finishing it not long before his death. Based in part on earlier historical-geographical works, it offers a description of astronomical and meteorological phenomena; the divisions of the earth; the seas; ancient nations; ...
compiled by M.J. de Goeje., Main Heritage Compact General, G93 .G36 2014, Reference, Item-ID: i22386336, BIB-ID: 2395523, In Arabic and Latin.
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 ...
by Ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamadhānī = Mukhtaṣar kitāb al-buldān / taʼlīf Abī Bakr Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Faqīh., "M.J. de Goeje's classic edition (1885) with index and glossary.", Added title page: Compendium libri Kitâb al-boldân, auctore Ibn al-Fakîh al- ...
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 ( ...
أحمد بن يحيى البلاذري, "This is a reprint of Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān by Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-Balādhurī (d. c. 892 CE), edited by M.J. de Goeje and originally titled Liber expugnationis regionum (Leiden, 1866). The work offers an account of the early conquests of the Is ...