Hudud al-'Alam 'The Regions of the World' - A Persian Geography 372 A.H. (982 AD)
The Hudud al-'Alam, written in AD 982 for a Prince of Guzganan (located in the North West of modern Afghanistan), is a geography covering the whole known world and one of the earliest works of Persian prose. It was designed to accompany a map and, though the product of cabinet scholarship rather than original observation, it preserves much material from earlier compositions which are lost and shows originality in its organization. A facsimile edition of the unique MS, which came to light in Bukhara in the late 19th century, was published in Russia in 1930 by Barthold but it was left to Minorsky to make the data widely accessible by his Englis…
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- ISBN: 978-1-909724-73-0
- EAN: 9781909724730
- Produktnummer: 22574098
- Verlag: Gibb Memorial Trust
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 596 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'705 KB
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