The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal. An Arabian traveller of the tenth century / Translated from a manuscript in his own possession, collated with one preserved in the library of Eton College, by Sir William Ouseley.

  • al-Iṣṭakhrī, active 10th century.
Date:
1800
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Credit: The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal. An Arabian traveller of the tenth century / Translated from a manuscript in his own possession, collated with one preserved in the library of Eton College, by Sir William Ouseley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In compiling, from the Manuscript Works of several Persian and Arabian Authors, whatsoever they had written on the Geography of the Eastern World, I found that, in a variety of detached extracts, I had imperceptibly translated almost half of that treatise which I now offer to the Publick as complete in an English version as the obscurities and imper- fections of the original would admit. Besides the intrinsick merits of the work, its authenticity and antiquity induced me to regard it as the most important of all compositions on the subject of Oriental Geography. Abulfeda informs us, that Edrisi, Ebn Khordadbah, and many other writers of high reputation, have only traced, on b