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interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%97%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%9C" title="אבן חאוקל – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אבן חאוקל" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B1%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB" title="Ибн Хаукал – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Ибн Хаукал" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ebn_Hewqal" title="Îbn Hewqal – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Îbn Hewqal" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li 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For an English version, see <a href="/wiki/File:Ibn_Howqal_World_map_English.png" title="File:Ibn Howqal World map English.png">here</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6_-_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%82%D9%84_A_Page_419.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6_-_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%82%D9%84_A_Page_419.JPG/220px-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6_-_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%82%D9%84_A_Page_419.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="301" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6_-_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%82%D9%84_A_Page_419.JPG/330px-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6_-_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%82%D9%84_A_Page_419.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6_-_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%82%D9%84_A_Page_419.JPG/440px-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6_-_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%82%D9%84_A_Page_419.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1435" data-file-height="1965" /></a><figcaption>10th century map of the Caspian sea by Ibn Hawqal</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ibn_Hawqal%E2%80%99s_map_1_wiki.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Ibn_Hawqal%E2%80%99s_map_1_wiki.jpg/220px-Ibn_Hawqal%E2%80%99s_map_1_wiki.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Ibn_Hawqal%E2%80%99s_map_1_wiki.jpg/330px-Ibn_Hawqal%E2%80%99s_map_1_wiki.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Ibn_Hawqal%E2%80%99s_map_1_wiki.jpg/440px-Ibn_Hawqal%E2%80%99s_map_1_wiki.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2956" data-file-height="4148" /></a><figcaption>10th century map of the Caspian sea by Ibn Hawqal</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Muḥammad Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal</b> (<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">محمد أبو القاسم بن حوقل</span></span>), also known as <b>Abū al-Qāsim b. ʻAlī Ibn Ḥawqal al-Naṣībī</b>, born in <a href="/wiki/Nisibis" class="mw-redirect" title="Nisibis">Nisibis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al-Jazira_(caliphal_province)" title="Al-Jazira (caliphal province)">Upper Mesopotamia</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a 10th-century <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> writer, geographer, and chronicler who travelled from AD 943 to 969.<sup id="cite_ref-Ludwig_2009_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ludwig_2009-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His famous work, written in 977, is called <i><a href="/wiki/Surat_Al-Ard" title="Surat Al-Ard">Surat Al-Ard</a></i> (<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">صورة الارض</span></span>; "The face of the Earth"). The date of his death, known from his writings, was after <a href="/wiki/Anno_Hegirae" class="mw-redirect" title="Anno Hegirae">AH</a> 368/<a href="/wiki/AD" class="mw-redirect" title="AD">AD</a> 978. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ibn_Hawqal&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Details known of Ibn Hawqal's life are extrapolated from his book. He spent the last 30 years of his life traveling to remote parts of <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>, and writing about different things he saw during his journey. One journey brought him 20° south of the equator along the <a href="/wiki/East_Africa" title="East Africa">East African</a> coast where he discovered large populations in regions the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greek</a> writers had deemed uninhabitable.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ṣūrat_al-’Arḍ"><span id=".E1.B9.A2.C5.ABrat_al-.E2.80.99Ar.E1.B8.8D"></span>Ṣūrat al-’Arḍ</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ibn_Hawqal&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Ṣūrat al-’Arḍ"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ibn Hawqal based his great work of geography on a revision and augmentation of the text called <i>Masālik ul-Mamālik</i> by <a href="/wiki/Istakhri" title="Istakhri">Istakhri</a> (AD 951), which itself was a revised edition of the <i>Ṣuwar al-aqālīm</i> by <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_ibn_Sahl_al-Balkhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi">Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi</a>, (ca. AD 921).<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŞeşen199935_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŞeşen199935-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However Ibn Hawqal was more than an editor, he was a travel writer writing in the style followed later by <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ubaydallah_al-Bakri" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu Ubaydallah al-Bakri">Abu Ubaydallah al-Bakri</a> in his <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Roads_and_Kingdoms_(al-Bakr%C4%AB)" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Roads and Kingdoms (al-Bakrī)"><i>Kitab al-Masālik wa-al-Mamālik</i></a>, a literary genre which uses reports of merchants and travellers. Ibn Hawqal introduces 10th century humour into his account of <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Sicily" class="mw-redirect" title="Emirate of Sicily">Sicily</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Kalbids" title="Kalbids">Kalbid-Fatimid</a> dynasty. As a primary source his medieval geography tends to exaggeration, depicting the "barbaric and uncivilised" Christians of <a href="/wiki/Palermo" title="Palermo">Palermo</a>, reflecting the prevailing politics and attitudes of his time. Yet his geographic accounts of his personal travels were relied upon, and found useful, by medieval Arab travellers. </p><p>The chapters on <a href="/wiki/Al-Andalus" title="Al-Andalus">al-Andalus</a>, Sicily, and the richly cultivated area of <a href="/wiki/Fraxinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Fraxinet">Fraxinet</a> (<a href="/wiki/La_Garde-Freinet" title="La Garde-Freinet">La Garde-Freinet</a>) describes in detail a number of regional innovations practiced by Muslim farmers and fishermen. </p><p>The chapter on the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>—known in the Muslim world as, and called by the Byzantines themselves, the "Lands of the Romans"—gives his first-hand observation of the 360 languages spoken in the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">Lingua Franca</a> being Arabic and <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> across the region. With the description of <a href="/wiki/Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiev">Kiev</a>, he may have mentioned the <a href="/wiki/Volga_trade_route" title="Volga trade route">route</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Volga_Bulgars" class="mw-redirect" title="Volga Bulgars">Volga Bulgars</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Khazar" class="mw-redirect" title="Khazar">Khazars</a>, which was perhaps taken from <a href="/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Sviatoslav I of Kiev">Sviatoslav I of Kiev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also published a cartographic map of <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> together with accounts of the geography and culture of Sindh and the <a href="/wiki/Indus_River" title="Indus River">Indus River</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Editions">Editions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ibn_Hawqal&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An anonymous epitome of the book was written in AD 1233.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1870s, the famous Dutch orientalist <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jan_de_Goeje" title="Michael Jan de Goeje">Michael Jan de Goeje</a> edited a selection of manuscript texts by Arab geographers, which was published by <a href="/wiki/Brill_publishers" class="mw-redirect" title="Brill publishers">Brill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leiden" title="Leiden">Leiden</a> in the eight-volume series <i>Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum</i>. Ibn Haukal's text was the second volume published in 1873 under the Latin title <i>Viae et Regna, descriptio ditionis Moslemicae auctore Abu'l-Kásim Ibn Haukal</i> - "Routes and Realms, a description of Muslim territories by the author Abu'l-Kásim Ibn Haukal".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ibn_Hawqal&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Maqdisi" title="Al-Maqdisi">Al-Maqdisi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Faqih" title="Ibn al-Faqih">Ibn al-Faqih</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qudama_ibn_Ja%27far" title="Qudama ibn Ja'far">Qudama ibn Ja'far</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Khordadbeh" title="Ibn Khordadbeh">Ibn Khordadbeh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Rustah" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn Rustah">Ibn Rustah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Ya%27qubi" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Ya'qubi">Al-Ya'qubi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Masudi" title="Al-Masudi">Al-Masudi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_scholars" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim scholars">Muslim scholars</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ibn_Hawqal&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFJean-Charles2017" class="citation journal cs1">Jean-Charles, Ducène (January 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/ibn-hawqal-COM_30810">"Ibn Ḥawqal"</a>. <i>Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Encyclopaedia+of+Islam%2C+Three&rft.atitle=Ibn+%E1%B8%A4awqal&rft.date=2017-01&rft.aulast=Jean-Charles&rft.aufirst=Duc%C3%A8ne&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Freferenceworks.brillonline.com%2Fentries%2Fencyclopaedia-of-islam-3%2Fibn-hawqal-COM_30810&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIbn+Hawqal" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ludwig_2009-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Ludwig_2009_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_W._Adamec" title="Ludwig W. Adamec">Ludwig W. Adamec</a> (2009), <i>Historical Dictionary of Islam</i>, p.137. Scarecrow Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0810861615" title="Special:BookSources/0810861615">0810861615</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-EB1911_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-EB1911_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ibn Hauḳal"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Ibn_Hau%E1%B8%B3al">"Ibn Hauḳal" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 221.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Ibn+Hau%E1%B8%B3al&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=221&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIbn+Hawqal" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEŞeşen199935-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŞeşen199935_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFŞeşen1999">Şeşen 1999</a>, p. 35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/A/R/Arabs.htm">Encyclopedia of Ukraine</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ibn_Hawqal&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>James, Preston Everett. <i>All Possible Worlds: A History of Geography</i>. New York: Wiley, 1981.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUylenbroek1822" class="citation book cs1">Uylenbroek, P. J. (1822). <i>Specimen geographico-historicum exhibens dissertationem de Ibn Haukalo geographo, nec non descriptionem Iracae Persicae cum ex eo scriptore tum ex aliis mss. arabicis bibl. L.B. petitam</i>. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Luchtmans, S. et J. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/905422872">905422872</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Specimen+geographico-historicum+exhibens+dissertationem+de+Ibn+Haukalo+geographo%2C+nec+non+descriptionem+Iracae+Persicae+cum+ex+eo+scriptore+tum+ex+aliis+mss.+arabicis+bibl.+L.B.+petitam&rft.place=Lugduni+Batavorum+%28Leiden%29&rft.pub=Luchtmans%2C+S.+et+J.&rft.date=1822&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F905422872&rft.aulast=Uylenbroek&rft.aufirst=P.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIbn+Hawqal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFIbn_Haukal1873" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Ibn Haukal (1873). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/viaeetregnadescr02ibnh/page/n426">"Viae et regna, descriptio ditionis moslemicae auctore Abu'l-Kasim Ibn Haukal"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jan_de_Goeje" title="Michael Jan de Goeje">de Goeje</a>, M. J. (ed.). <i>Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum</i> (in Arabic and Latin). Vol. 2. Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden): <a href="/wiki/Brill_publishers" class="mw-redirect" title="Brill publishers">Brill</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Viae+et+regna%2C+descriptio+ditionis+moslemicae+auctore+Abu%27l-Kasim+Ibn+Haukal&rft.btitle=Bibliotheca+geographorum+Arabicorum&rft.place=Lugdunum+Batavorum+%28Leiden%29&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=1873&rft.au=Ibn+Haukal&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fviaeetregnadescr02ibnh%2Fpage%2Fn426&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIbn+Hawqal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAl-Istakhri1927" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Al-Istakhri, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad (1927), <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jan_de_Goeje" title="Michael Jan de Goeje">Goeje</a>, M. J. de (ed.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/BibliothecaGeographorumArabicorum1927Vol1ViaeRegnorumDescriptio">"Viae Regnorum descriptio ditionis Moslemicae auctore Abū Ishāk al-Fārisi al-Istakhri"</a>, <i>Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum</i> (in Arabic and Latin), <b>1</b>, Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden): Brill</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bibliotheca+Geographorum+Arabicorum&rft.atitle=Viae+Regnorum+descriptio+ditionis+Moslemicae+auctore+Ab%C5%AB+Ish%C4%81k+al-F%C4%81risi+al-Istakhri&rft.volume=1&rft.date=1927&rft.aulast=Al-Istakhri&rft.aufirst=Abu+Ishaq+Ibrahim+ibn+Muhammad&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2FBibliothecaGeographorumArabicorum1927Vol1ViaeRegnorumDescriptio&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIbn+Hawqal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoeje1870" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jan_de_Goeje" title="Michael Jan de Goeje">Goeje</a>, M. J. de, ed. (1870), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bibliothecageogr04goejuoft/page/n5">"Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad Part I-III"</a>, <i>Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum</i> (in Arabic and Latin), <b>4</b>, Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden): Brill</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bibliotheca+Geographorum+Arabicorum&rft.atitle=Indices%2C+glossarium+et+addenda+et+emendanda+ad+Part+I-III&rft.volume=4&rft.date=1870&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbibliothecageogr04goejuoft%2Fpage%2Fn5&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIbn+Hawqal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGabrieli1961" class="citation journal cs1">Gabrieli, Francesco (1961). "Ibn Ḥawqal e gli Arabi di Sicilia". <i>Rivista degli studi orientali</i>. <b>36</b>: <span class="nowrap">245–</span>253. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/41879386">41879386</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Rivista+degli+studi+orientali&rft.atitle=Ibn+%E1%B8%A4awqal+e+gli+Arabi+di+Sicilia&rft.volume=36&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E245-%3C%2Fspan%3E253&rft.date=1961&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F41879386%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Gabrieli&rft.aufirst=Francesco&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIbn+Hawqal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFŞeşen1999" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Şeşen, Ramzan (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibn-havkal"><i>IBN HAVKAL</i></a> (in Turkish). 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