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of postal routes, and seems intended to help commit those lists to memory rather than to guide travellers through the territory. There is no consistency between the
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was published by Brill, Lugduni-Batavora (Leiden) in the 1870s. An edition of Istakhri's MS text was produced for the first volume under the Latin title
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Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (1927), vol 1: Viae Regnorum descriptio ditionis Moslemicae auctore Abu Ishák al-Fárisí al-Istakhrí
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Mojtahed-Zadeh, Pirous. "The Persian Gulf in the Geographical Views of the Ancient World" In
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An 8-volume edition of works by medieval Arab geographers, edited by the Dutch orientalist
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The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century
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The arts of Islam : treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili collection
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is the earliest known. Istakhri met the celebrated traveller-geographer
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and is digitally available. Another illuminated manuscript dated
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Das Buch der Länder von Schech Ebu Ishak el Farsi el Isztachri
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Das Buch der Länder von Schech Ebu Ishak el Farsi el Isztachri
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Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1989). "al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik".
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VIII(6):646-647 (I have used the updated online version).
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Bolshakov, O. G. (1998). "EṢṬAḴRĪ, ABŪ ESḤĀQ EBRĀHĪM".
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states: "Biographical data are very meager. From his
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of the many Muslim territories he visited during the
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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri
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