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Ibn al-Faqih

Persian Muslim historian and geographer

Ibn al-Faqih
Parent	Muḥammad ibn al-Faqih

Academic work
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Main interests	Islamic geography
Notable works	Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan ("Concise Book of Lands")

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani (Persian: احمد بن محمد ابن الفقيه الهمذانی) (fl. 902) was a 10th-century Persian^[1] historian and geographer, famous for his Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan ("Concise Book of Lands") written in Arabic.

In the 1870s the Dutch orientalist Michael Jan de Goeje edited a selection of geography works of Arab geographers in an eight-volume series titled Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum published by Lugduni-Batavae (Leiden) Brill publishers. Al-Hamadhānī's Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan was published in volume 5 of this series.

In 1967 second editions were printed by Dar Sadir (Beirut) and E.J. Brill (Lugduni Batavorum).

References

^ Donzel, E. J. van (1 January 1994). Islamic Desk Reference. BRILL. p. 147. ISBN 90-04-09738-4. Ibn al-Faqih: Persian author of a geography written in Arabic; ixth c. In his only surviving work The Book of the Countries, he describes his native town Hamadan and the countries of Iran, Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Rum, Jazira, Central Asia, Nubia and Abyssinia. North Africa, al-Andalus and Sudan are given merely a brief résumé.

Ibn al-Fakih al-Hamadhānī (1870), Goeje, M. J. de (ed.), "Compendium libri Kitāb Al-Boldān auctore Ibn al-Fakih al-Hamadhānī", Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum (in Arabic and Latin), 5, Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden): Brill

Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world

Geographers

9th century	Al-Khwarizmi Abu Hanifa Dinawari Ya'qubi Sulaiman al-Tajir
10th century	Ibn Khordadbeh Ahmad ibn Rustah Ahmad ibn Fadlan Abu Zayd al-Balkhi Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani Al-Masudi Istakhri Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad Ibn Hawqal Ibn al-Faqih Al-Muqaddasi Al-Ramhormuzi Qudama ibn Ja'far
11th century	Al-Biruni Abu Saʿīd Gardēzī Al-Bakri Mahmud al-Kashgari Domiyat
12th century	al-Zuhri Muhammad al-Idrisi Abu'l Abbas al-Hijazi
13th century	Ibn Jubayr Saadi Shirazi Yaqut al-Hamawi Ibn Said al-Maghribi Ibn al-Nafis Ibn al-Mujawir
14th century	Al-Dimashqi Abu'l-Fida Ibn al-Wardi Hamdallah Mustawfi Ibn Battuta Lin Nu
15th century	Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī Ghiyāth al-dīn Naqqāsh Ahmad ibn Mājid Zheng He Ma Huan Fei Xin
16th century	Sulaiman Al Mahri Piri Reis Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi Amīn Rāzī
17th century	Evliya Çelebi