Product Description: Description de lAfrique et de lEspagne offers a partial edition of the Arabic descriptive geography by Abu Abdallh Muammad al-Idrs (d. c. 560 AH/1165 CE) entitled Kitb Nuzhat al-mushtq f khtirq al-fq. The author lived at the court of the Norman King Roger II in Sicily where he composed this work for him...read more

Product Description: Little is known about the life of Abu Ish a q Ibr h m b. Mu ammad al-Is t akhri , the author of Kita b al-Masa lik wa l-mama lik, which was written towards the end of the first half of the 10th century CE. The work built on the earlier concept of the atlas of Islam, which it developed further...read more

Product Description: Ibn al-Faq h was the Iranian author of a Geography in Arabic entitled Kit b al-buldan written around the year 903. The original work is lost, but the abridged version, possibly composed around 1022, has survived in a handful of manuscripts...read more

Product Description: This is a reprint of Kit b Fut al-buld n by A mad b. Ya y al-Bal dhur (d. c. 892 CE), edited by M.J. de Goeje and originally titled Liber expugnationis regionum (Leiden,1866). The work offers an account of the early conquests of the Islamic polity...read more

Product Description: The Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Ta r kh al-rusul wa-l-mul k) by al- abar (d. 923 C.E.) is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M...read more

Product Description: Abu 'l-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr, usually known simply as Ibn Jubayr, came from an Arab family long settled in Spain. In February 1183 he set out from Granada to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca. His fame chiefly rests on the account he has left of his journey to the East and back, a journal not without rhetorical flourishes but of particular importance for the breadth of the author's interests and its abundance of vivid detail...read more