Ibn Hauqal
Mohammed Abu l-Qasim ibn Hauqal , Arabic محمد أبو القاسم بن حوقل, DMG Muḥammad Abu l-Qāsim b. Ḥauqal (born in Nisibis , then the Arab Caliphate , now Turkey ; died after 977), was a 10th century Arab geographer and writer. Together with al-Istachri and al-Muqaddasi, he is one of the representatives of descriptive geography.
Live and act
Raised between Baghdad Shiites , he made numerous trips to North Africa , Syria , the southern Sahara , Egypt , Armenia , Azerbaijan , Mesopotamia , Iraq , Persia , Khorezmia , Transoxania and Sicily from 943 to 969 .
His geographical work is in his Kitab Surat al-Ard, written in 977 /كتاب صورة الأرض / Kitāb Ṣūratu l-Arḍ / 'Book of the Image of the Earth' and Kitab Masalik wa-l-Mamalik (“Book of Ways and Lands”) written in al-Istachris 951 have been preserved.
literature
- Preston E. James and Geoffrey J. Martin: All Possible Worlds. A History of Geography . Wiley, New York 1981, ISBN 0-471-06121-2 .
Web link
- Encyclopaedia of Islam , article Ibn Hauqal ( Memento from May 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) and al-Masalik wa`l-Mamalik ( Memento from May 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kitāb al-Masālik wa-ʾl-mamālik - Digitized version of the Leiden 1873 edition
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| SURNAME | Ibn Hauqal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ibn Hauqal, Mohammed Abul-Kassem; محمد أبو القاسم بن حوقل (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Arab-Islamic geographer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nisibis , Turkey |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 977 |