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    Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri (آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري) (also Estakhri, Persian: استخری, i.e. from the Iranian...
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  • version of the geographical treatise Kitāb al-Masālik waʿl-mamālik by al-Iṣṭakhrī (951), and an anonymous Persian geography, Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam (late 10th century)...
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    al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik by al-Istakhri (restored in 2018, Persian translation dated to the 14-15th century CE) Map of Pars by al-Istakhri from folio 40b of the...
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    Book of Roads and Kingdoms written by Istakhri...
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  • time are unclear on Khazar's linguistic affiliation. The tenth century Al-Istakhri wrote two conflicting notices: "the language of the Khazars is different...
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    Please! The Translations of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms". Picturing the Islamicate World: The Story of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms...
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    as the Toquz Oghuz from whom emerged the founders of Uyghur Khaganate. Istakhri and Muhammad ibn Muhmad al-Tusi kept the Toquz Oghuz and Oghuz distinct...
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    the baths.) See also: Sutton et al., p. 595. The Persian geographer Al-Istakhri (d. 957 A.D.) stated that ammonium chloride was obtained from the soot...
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    sometime between 730 and 750. According to the 10th-century geographers al-Istakhri and Ibn Hawqal, Samandar was inhabited by Jews, Christians, Muslims, and...
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  • ibn Fadlan Abu Zayd al-Balkhi Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani Al-Masudi Istakhri Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad Ibn Hawqal Ibn al-Faqih Al-Muqaddasi Al-Ramhormuzi...
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    including the Seljuqs and the Khwarazmshahs. The 10th-century Persian author Istakhri, who travelled in Transoxiana, provides a vivid description of the natural...
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  • of Islam", inaugurated by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (d. 934) and developed by Istakhri (d. 957) and al-Maqdisi's contemporary Ibn Hawqal (d. 978). Al-Balkhi's...
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    on a revision and augmentation of the text called Masālik ul-Mamālik by Istakhri (AD 951), which itself was a revised edition of the Ṣuwar al-aqālīm by...
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  • as the lost book Kitāb al-Masālik wal-Mamālik written by Jayhani. (c) Istakhri (Ist.), Masālik al-Mamālik (مسالك الممالك, "Routes of the Realms") or kitab...
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    working at the observatory in Merv. As Persian geographer and traveller al-Istakhri wrote of Merv: "Of all the countries of Iran, these people were noted for...
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  • River was a river in Medieval Southern Persia. Mentioned by Marco Polo, Istakhri and by Yaqut al-Hamawi Its name means River of Robbers. Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi...
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  • but to the poor. Multiple Muslim sources—from voyager-historians like Istakhri, Al-Maqdisi, Al-Masudi, Ahmad ibn Rustah and Ibn Hawqal to encyclopedists...
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  • suggests the area contained several villages. The 10th-century geographer Istakhri noted it was one of the most populous and agriculturally productive areas...
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    Muslim scholars, including 9th-10th century geographers Ibn Khordadbeh and Istakhri, narrated that the Khalaj were one of the earliest tribes to have crossed...
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    Hunnish. The latter based upon the assertion of the Persian historian Istakhri the Khazar language was different from any other known tongue. Alano-As...
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    apparently recovered by the 9th century according to Persian geographer Istakhri who wrote that merchants grew rich there "for this place was a great market...
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    Muslims with non-Muslims living close by. Iranian traveller and geographer Istakhri described it in 921: Kábul has a castle celebrated for its strength, accessible...
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  • as one of Iranian dialects spoken between the 9th and 13th centuries. Istakhri, a medieval Iranian geographer, has written about this language, as did...
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    the same bridge that was called "Andamesh Bridge" by historians such as Istakhri who says the city of Andimeshk takes its name from this bridge. Muqaddasi...
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    and narrow at the south; its figure is that of a half-moon." c. 950 Hind Istakhri "As for the land of the Hind it is bounded on the East by the Persian Sea...
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  • experience and probably the works of Ptolemy. Another such cartographer was Istakhri. This map appears in a copy of a classical work on geography, the Latin...
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    geographers wrote about Istakhr. In the mid-10th century, the travel writer Istakhri (himself a native), described it as a medium-sized town. The geographer...
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    Alchabitius, Introduction to the Art of Judgments of the Stars 951–978: Istakhri, Traditions of Countries and Ibn Hawqal, The Face of the Earth: "The provinces...
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    The grave can be seen by anyone who dives to the bottom of the water". Istakhri gives a similar account and adds that the Jews were accustomed to make...
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    as "playground of Solomon" by scholars such as Mas'udi, Muqaddasi and Istakhri. Other Muslim authors have opposed the belief that Solomon once ruled in...
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