Description and travel, DS412 .I263 1819, 425.4 Ib5d
ex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar,... Show moreex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar, south-western India. Original Arabic text, edited with a Latin translation and annotations by the Jena oriental scholar and entomologist Johann Heinrich Gottfried Apetz (1794-1857), a student of L. G. Kosegarten, to whom this effort is dedicated. - Ibn Battuta's famous "Rihla" (literally, "The Journey") is considered one of the most significant Mediaeval eyewitness accounts of the Middle East. Over a period of thirty years, the Muslim Moroccan explorer Abu-‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Batutah (1304-77?) visited most of the known Islamic world, including North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East - a distance surpassing his near-contemporary Marco Polo. He journeyed more than 75,000 miles, a figure unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later, and is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. After returning home from his travels in 1354, Ibn Battuta dictated an account of his journeys to Ibn Juzayy, a scholar whom he had previously met in Granada. The account is the only source for Ibn Battuta's adventures. For centuries his book was obscure, even within the Muslim world, but in the early 19th century extracts were published in German and English based on manuscripts discovered in the Middle East, containing abridged versions of Ibn Juzayy's Arabic text. - Slight browning and duststaining; ownership "S. H. Lewin" (dated 1828) on t. p. Main Heritage Compact General DS412 .I263 1819 Book Item-ID: i16843642 BIB-ID: 1509208 Show less
الجغرافيا عند العرب, Geography, Arab, التاريخ الإسلامي--وصف ورحلات, Description and travel, G93 .M94 2014, 910.91767
Shams al-Din Abu ʻAbdallah Muḥammad b. Ahmad b. Abi Bakr al-Bannaʼ al-Shami al-Muqadassi is one of the most prominent representatives of Arabic... Show moreShams al-Din Abu ʻAbdallah Muḥammad b. Ahmad b. Abi Bakr al-Bannaʼ al-Shami al-Muqadassi is one of the most prominent representatives of Arabic geography in the second half of the 10th century CE. Building on the tradition of the "atlas of Islam" of which al-Istakhri and Ibn Hawqal were also representatives, al-Muqadassi was the first to systematize the subject into a proper science of geography of Islam for the benefit of both merchants and the cultivated man. Al-Muqadass's Ahsan al-taqasim fi maʻrifat al-aqalim ("the best division for the knowledge of the provinces") was the first work of its kind to be accepted as a form of literature. The treatment of each "province" (iqlim) begins with the division of its districts and towns, followed by their description. Then a general chapter of the province tends to discuss the following aspects: climate, products and specialties, waters, mines, mountains, holy places, money, taxes, weights and measures, customs, marvels, calendar, political power, factions, schools and Qurʼanic readings, and routes. by al-Muqadassi = Main Heritage Compact General G93 .M94 2014 Reference Item-ID: i22369260 BIB-ID: 1886526 In Arabic. Show less
Geography, Medieval, Description and travel, DS46 .I88 2014, 915.6041
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... Show moreLittle 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 further. The climates (iqlīm) it describes are no longer those of Ptolemean geography, but, reflecting the Iranian tradition, refer to geographical entities or "countries". Also reflecting the author's background--whose most common nisba is al-Fārisī--Iran holds a favoured position on this work. Published in 1870, the present edition by M.J. de Goeje was the first volume in the first series of the Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum. auctore Abu Ishák al-Fárisí al-Istakhrí. Title page states: "M.J. de Goeje's classic edition (1870)". Title in Latin transcription: Viae regnorum : descriptio ditionis Moslemicae / auctore Abu Ishák al-Fárisí al Istakhrí ; edidit M.J. de Goeje. Photo mechanical reprint of the 1870 edition. Main Heritage Compact General DS46 .I88 2014 Reference Item-ID: i22369259 BIB-ID: 1886538 Text in Arabic with preface in Latin. Show less
Geography, Medieval, الجغرافيا العربية, الجغرافيا الطبيعية, الأرض, Geography, Arab, وصف ورحلات, Description and travel, DS327.6 .I26 2014
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... Show moreThe 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 (973). By about 988 CE the final version of Ibn Ḥawqal's Kitāb Ṣūrat al-arḍ was ready. It is effectively both a continuation and an update of al-Istakhri's Kitab al-Masalik wa-al-mamalik and is also known under that same title. Ibn Ḥawqal transformed what was meant as a commentary on a series of maps into a work in its own right, which also included remarks on various countries or peoples bordering on the Islamic world, e.g. the Turks, the Khazars, the towns of southern Italy, the Sudanese and the Nubians. Although he owed much to al-Istakhri;s work, Ibn Ḥawqal aimed to place the text firmly within his own period. He took great care to depict a region precisely in the state and at the date that he himself had seen it, with occasional references to the distant or more recent past. This is particularly true of the notes on economic matters, which form a complete break with convention. Ibn Ḥawqal was the only Arab geographer of the period who really sketched a vivid picture of production. تأليف ابي القاسم بن حوقل النصيبي = Viae et regna : descriptio ditionis Moslemicae / auctore Abu'l-Kásim Ibn Haukal ; edidit M.J. de Goeje. "M.J. de Goeje's classic edition (1873)." Main Heritage Compact General DS327.6 .I26 2014 Reference Item-ID: i22369144 BIB-ID: 1886540 Show less
edidit, latine vertit, notas adiecit Ioannes David Michaelis. Arabic and Latin text. Main Heritage Shelves General DT51 .A28 1776 Book Item-ID: i10046227 ... Show moreedidit, latine vertit, notas adiecit Ioannes David Michaelis. Arabic and Latin text. Main Heritage Shelves General DT51 .A28 1776 Book Item-ID: i10046227 BIB-ID: 1006425 Show less
تقاويم البلدان, الجغرافيا, وصف ورحلات, G93 .M94 1909
للمقدسي المعروف بالبشاري. Main Heritage Shelves General G93 .M94 1909 Book Item-ID: i15945868 BIB-ID: 2535257 يتضمن مراجع ببليوجرافية. Show moreللمقدسي المعروف بالبشاري. Main Heritage Shelves General G93 .M94 1909 Book Item-ID: i15945868 BIB-ID: 2535257 يتضمن مراجع ببليوجرافية. Show less
