Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-mamalik
The Kitāb al-Masālik wa-l-mamālik ("Book of Ways and Provinces"; Arabic كتاب المسالك والممالك) is a cartographic work from the first half of the 10th century by the Persian- Islamic geographer al-Istachrī . The book describes the socio-economic, cultural and political conditions in Islamic countries at the time - from India to Africa - and contains 21 “template-like” maps. In terms of content, it is a revised version of the (lost) work Ṣuwar al-Aqālīm by Abū Zaid al-Balchī .
The oldest Arabic manuscript of the book is in the Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt (Ms. orient. A 1521), the oldest Persian copy in the Iranian National Library in Tehran . Both have been part of the world document heritage in Germany and Iran since 2015 . The nomination was submitted by the Iranian National Committee and worked out with the participation of the Gotha Research Library.
The Gotha manuscript was acquired in Cairo in 1807 by Ulrich Jasper Seetzen for Ernst II and August von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg .
Web links
- Digitized version of the Gotha manuscript
- The entry for Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-mamalik in the list of World Document Heritage by UNESCO
- World Document Heritage: Arabic manuscript from the Gotha Research Library declared World Document Heritage on the University of Erfurt's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Arabic manuscript from the Gotha Research Library declared World Document Heritage on uni-erfurt.de
- ↑ Gotha manuscript Kitāb al-Masālik wa-'l-mamālik now part of the world document heritage on uni-erfurt.de
- ↑ Luther writings and Bach's B minor mass are world document heritage - five new German entries in the “Memory of the World” register at unesco.de
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