Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum
The Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum ("Library of Arabic Geographers"; abbreviation BGA ) is a series of critical editions of classical Arabic geographical texts originally published by the Dutch orientalist Michael Jan de Goeje (1836–1909) as main editor in 1870 and 1894, written by several of the most famous Arab geographers .
They are all original editions that have been provided with indices and glossaries. The series is still published today by the Brill publishing house in Leiden . The series was later partially updated in new editions, so there is an updated edition of Muqaddasīs Kitāb aḥsan al-taqāsīm by Michael Jan de Goeje and Johannes H. Kramers ' new edition of Ibn Ḥawkals Kitāb al-masālik wa-l-mamālik .
Régis Blachère (1900–1973), Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895–1971), Paul Kahle (1875–1964), Johannes H. Kramers (1891–1951), Hans von Mžik (1876–1961 ) contributed to the series as editors ), Carlo Alfonso Nallino (1872–1938) and Arent J. Wensinck (1882–1939).
The Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum consists of the following volumes:
- Michael Jan de Goeje : Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part. I - III
- Muqaddasī : Kitāb aḥsan al-taqāsīm
- Ibn Ḥawkal : Kitāb al-masālik wa-l-mamālik
- Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husain al-Masʿūdī : Kitāb at-tanbīh wa-ʾl-ašrāf
- Ibrāhīm Ibn-Muḥammad al-Iṣṭaẖrī / Abū Zaid al-Balchī : Kitāb masālik al-mamālik
- Ibn Hauqal : Kitāb Ṣūrat al-arḍ
- Ahmad ibn Rustah : ... min Kitāb al-aʿlāq an-nafīsa
- Ibn-al-Fakîh al-Hamadhânî : Muḫtaṣar kitāb al-buldān
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publishing site of the publication
- SUB GÖ (1) , (2) , (3)
References and footnotes
- ↑ SUB GÖ