Ibn Khordadbeh

Ibn Khordadbeh
Born820/825
Khurasan, Abbasid Caliphate
Died913
Notable worksBook of Roads and Kingdoms
RelativesAbdallah ibn Khordadbeh (father)

Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (Arabic: ابوالقاسم عبیدالله ابن خرداذبه; 820/825–913), commonly known as Ibn Khordadbeh (also spelled Ibn Khurradadhbih; ابن خرددة), was a high-ranking bureaucrat and geographer of Persian descent[1] in the Abbasid Caliphate.[2] He is the author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography.[3]

  1. ^ van Arendonk, C. (2012-04-24), "Ibn K̲h̲ordād̲h̲beh", Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936), Brill, retrieved 2023-07-31, Abu 'l-Ḳāsim ʿUbaid Allāh b. ʿAbd Allāh, an important geographer of Persian descent who was apparently born in the early years of the third century a. h. (c. 820).
  2. ^ "GEOGRAPHY iv. Cartography of Persia – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-08-24. Ebn Ḵordādbeh (fl. 9th cent., q.v.), one of the earliest Persian geographers, produced in 846 his major work Ketāb al-masālek wa'l mamālek, which is considered the foundation for the later Balḵī school of geography
  3. ^ Bosworth 1997, pp. 37–38.