Ibn Rusta's Kitāb al-Aʻlāq al-nafīsa and Kitāb al-Buldān by al-Yaʻqūbī
Subtitle: Kitab al-Alaq al-nafisa / tasnif Abi Ali Ahmad b. Umar b. Rusta. Kitab al-buldan / tasnif Ahmad b. Abi Yaqub b. Wadih al-Katib al-maruf bi-al-Yaqubi
Contributors: Goeje, M. J. de (Michael Jan), 1836-1909; Yaʻqūbī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʻqūb, -897?
Series: Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum -- I-7; Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum -- I-7.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: ara
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9789004258747
Subjects: Arab Geography; Early works to 1800; History
Other titles: Mujallad al-sābiʻ min Kitāb al-Aʻlāq al-nafīsah; Kitāb al-Aʻlāq al-nafīsah
Work titles: Aʻlāq al-nafīsah
Description: Abu 'Ali Ahmad b. 'Umar Ibn Rusta was born in Isfahan at an unknown date and he flourished in the first decade of the 10th century CE. Only the seventh volume of his Kitab al-A'laq al-nafisa has survived. The work deals with mathematical, descriptive and human geography and a variety of historical and other subjects. One of his sources seems to have been a more complete version of Ibn Khurradadhbih, which has not survived. The Kitab al-A'laq al-nafisa, which has been characterized as an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, is a rich source on the kinds of subjects that interested the cultivated classes of Abbasid society. It is published here together with the Kitab al-buldan ('The book of countries') by al-Ya'qubi (d. c. 905 CE). al-Ya'qubi's Kitab al-buldan is an administrative geography based in part on the author's extensive travels, which also contains valuable historical data.
Notes: "M.J. de Goeje's classic editions (1892)."

Includes bibliographical references.