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Abu'l Qasim Ubaid'Allah ibn Khordadbeh (
Persian: ) (c.
820 –
912 CE), author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography, was a Persian
geographer and bureaucrat of the
9th century. The son of a wealthy
Persian family in northern
Iran, he was appointed "Director of Posts and Intelligence" for the province of
Djibal in northwestern Iran under the
Abbasid Caliph
al-Mutammid (ruled
869–
885 CE). In this capacity ibn Khordadbeh served as both postmaster general and the
Caliph's personal spymaster in that vital province.
Around 870 ibn Khordadbeh wrote
Kitāb al Masālik w’al Mamālik (
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms). In this work, ibn Khordadbeh described the various peoples and provinces of the
Abbasid Caliphate. Along with maps, the book also includes descriptions of the land, people and culture of the Southern
Asiatic coast as far as Brahamputra, The
Andaman Islands,
peninsular Malaysia and
Java. The lands of
Tang China,
Unified Silla (Korea) and
Japan are referenced within his work. It is one of the few surviving sources that describes the
Jewish merchant company known as the
Radhanites.
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