Ibn al-Faqih

Ibn al-Faqih
Ibn al-Faqih
Parent	Muḥammad ibn al-Faqih
Academic work
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Main interests	Islamic geography
Notable works	Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan ("Concise Book of Lands")

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani (Persian: احمد بن محمد ابن فقيه همدانی) (fl. 902) was a 10th-century Persian^[1] historian and geographer, famous for his Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan ("Concise Book of Lands") written in Arabic.

In the 1870s the Dutch orientalist Michael Jan de Goeje edited a selection of geography works of Arab geographers in an eight-volume series titled Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum published by Lugduni-Batavae (Leiden) Brill publishers. Al-Hamadhānī's Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan was published in volume 5 of this series.

In 1967 second editions were printed by Dar Sadir (Beirut) and E.J. Brill (Lugduni Batavorum).

References

^ Donzel, E. J. van (1 January 1994). Islamic Desk Reference. BRILL. p. 147. ISBN 90-04-09738-4. Ibn al-Faqih: Persian author of a geography written in Arabic; ixth c. In his only surviving work The Book of the Countries, he describes his native town Hamadan and the countries of Iran, Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Rum, Jazira, Central Asia, Nubia and Abyssinia. North Africa, al-Andalus and Sudan are given merely a brief résumé.

Ibn al-Fakih al-Hamadhānī (1870), Goeje, M. J. de (ed.), "Compendium libri Kitāb Al-Boldān auctore Ibn al-Fakih al-Hamadhānī", Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum (in Arabic and Latin), 5, Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden): Brill