The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century
By: translated from a manuscript in his own possession, collated with one preserved in the Library of Eton College, by Sir William Ouseley ...
Contributors: Ouseley, William, Sir, 1767-1842; Hiwi al-Balkhi, 9th cent.
Publisher: Printed, at the Oriental Press, by Wilson & Co. ..., for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies ...
Published: 1800
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Arabic language -- Texts and translations; Geography, Ancient.; Middle East -- Historical geography
Notes: English title preceded by title in Persian.

From a Persian version of the Masalik al-mamalik. Cf. Preface, p. iii.

Ascribed by Ouseley in his translation to Muhammad ibn Hawqal, and by Sprenger in the catalogue of his manuscripts (no. 1) to Ahmad ibn Sahl (Ab  Zaid) -Balkhi. In 921 al-Balkhi wrote a geographical work in which the maps were the important part. Ca. 951, al-Istakhri wrote a revision of al-Balkhi's work, commonly known as the "Kitab al-akaiim," in which he extended the description of places. A second revision of al-Balkhi's work was made ca. 977 by Ibn Haukal; cf. M. J. de Goeje, Die Istakhri-Balkhi Frage (in Zeitschrift der deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 25. Bd., 1871, p. 42-58) and C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, 1898, Bd. 1, p. 229.