The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal
Subtitle: 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: Muḥammad ibn Ḥauḳal, 10th century; Balkhī, Aḥmad ibn Sahl, 849 or 50-934.; Ouseley, William, Sir, 1767-1842.
Publisher: Printed by Wilson for T. Cadell, and W. Davies
Published: 1800
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Middle East -- Historical geography.; Egypt -- Historical geography
Other titles: Kitāb masālik wa mamālik
Notes: English title preceded by title in Persian.
From a Persian version of the "Masālik al-mamālik."  cf. Pref., p. iii.
Ascribed by Ouseley in his translation to Muḥammad ibn Ḥauḳal and by Sprenger in the catalogue of his manuscripts (no. 1) to Aḥmad ibn Sahl (Abü Zaid) al-Balkhī.  In 921 al-Balkhī wrote a geographical work in which the maps were the important part.  Ca. 951, al-Iṣṭakhrī wrote a revision of al-Balkhī's work, commonly known as the "Kitāb al-aḳāiīm," in which he extended the description of places.  A second revision of al-Balkhī's work was made ca. 977 by Ibn Ḥauḳal. cf. M. J. de Goeje, Die Istakhrī-Balkhī frage (in Zeitschrift der Deutschen morgenländischen geselischaft, 25. bd., 1871, p. 42-58) and C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen litteratur, 1898, bd. 1, p. 229.