Ibn al-Faqih
Ibn al-Faqih ( Arabic ابن الفقيه, DMG Ibn al-Faqīh ; fl. 902), whose full nameأحمد بن محمد بن إسحاق بن إبراهيم الهمذاني / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamaḏānī was a 10th century Persian historian and geographer , best known for his work Muḫtaṣar Kitāb al-Buldān ("Book of Lands") written in Arabic .
In the 1870s, the Dutch orientalist Michael Jan de Goeje edited a selection of texts by the most famous Arab geographers in an eight-volume book series entitled Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum , which was published by Brill in Leiden . Al-Hamadhānī's Muḫtaṣar Kitāb al-Buldān appeared in the fifth volume of the book series. In 1967 a second edition of the book series appeared, published by Dar Sadir in ( Beirut ) and the Brill publishing house in Leiden.
In his work Muḫtaṣar Kitāb al-Buldān, which has survived to this day , Ibn al-Faqih describes in detail his native city Hamadan and the countries in Iran , Arabia , Iraq , Syria , Egypt , Rum, Jazira, Central Asia , Nubia and Abyssinia . His news on North Africa , al-Andalus and Sudan are only brief summaries.
Remarks
- ↑ See Emeri Johannes van Donzel: Islamic Desk Reference . Brill, 1994. p. 147. ISBN = 90-04-09738-4. on-line
plant
- Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan . In: Michael Jan de Goeje (Ed.): Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum . 1870-1894, Volume 5.
- Michael Jan de Goeje (Ed.): Compendium libri Kitāb Al-Boldān auctore Ibn al-Fakih al-Hamadhānī . In: Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum , 5th volume. Brill . Lugdunum Batavorum ( Leiden ) 1870, online
literature
- Carl Brockelmann: History of Arabic Literature. Second edition adapted to the supplement volumes. Brill, Leiden 1943. Vol. 1. p. 261
- M. Canard: Ibn al-Faqih . In: Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden 2003. III: 759a.
- Christian M. Fraehn: Ibn-Foszlan's and other Arab reports on the Russians of older times , Hamburg 1976 (= Hamburg philological studies, 39), reprint of the St. Petersburg 1823 edition. ISBN 3-87118-216-8 ( digitized version of the 1823 )
- A. Zeki Velidi Togan: Ibn Fadlan's travel report . Treatises for the customers of the Orient . Volume 24, No. 3, Leipzig 1939. Reprinted in the Islamic Geography series, Vol. 168. Frankfurt a. M. 1994.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ibn al-Faqih in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ibn al-Faqih |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Persian historian and geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 9th century or 10th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 10th century |