Mukhta?ar Kitab al-Buldan by Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani: Muktasar kitab al-buldan / talif Abi Bakr Ahmad Ibn Muhammad al-Hamadani al-maruf bi-Ibn al-Faqih. M.J. de Goeje's Classic Edition (1885) with Index and Glossary
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Ibn alFaqīh was the Iranian author of a Geography in Arabic entitled Kitāb albuldan written around the year 903. The original work is lost, but the abridged version, possibly composed around 1022, has survived in a handful of manuscripts. Only three manuscripts were known during De Goeje’s life and he used them all for his edition, which was originally published in 1885. Its introduction includes a summary of Ibn Faqīh’s life on the basis of the classical sources by De Goeje. Ibn alFaqīh...


