Hudud al-'Alam

The Regions of the World.' A Persian Geography, 372 A. H.-982 A. D

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9851579
AutoresV Minorsky
Año1937
Volumen90
Número2
Páginas185
Fecha de publicación1937-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1787151
OpenAlexW2065957012
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

The Hudud al-'Alam, written in AD 982 for a Prince of Guzganan (located in the North West of modern Afghanistan), is a geography covering the whole known world and one of the earliest works of Persian prose. It was designed to accompany a map and, though the product of cabinet scholarship rather than original observation, it preserves much material from earlier compositions which are lost and shows originality in its organisation. A facsimile edition of the unique MS, which came to light in Bukhara in the late 19th century, was published in Russia in 1930 by Barthold but it was left to Minorsky to make the date widely accessible by his English translation and his extensive commentary, which analyses the work's position in the early Islamic geographical tradition and identifies and discusses the places mentioned in the light of a wealth of other information. The second edition contains additional material from Minorsky and was edited by C E Bosworth

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