Ibn Hawqal
Also known as Muḥammad Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal, Abū al-Qāsim b. ʻAlī Ibn Ḥawqal al-Naṣībī, Abu-l-Ḳâsim Ibn Ḥawḳal
10th century Arab writer and geographer
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- Kitāb ṣūrat al-arḍ
- Kitāb Sūrat al-arḍ
- Safarʹnāmah-ʼi Ibn Ḥawqal
- Kītāb ṣūrat al-ard
- Scriptorum Arabum de rebus indicis loci et opuscula inedita
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10th century map of the World by Ibn Hawqal. For an English version, see here. 10th century map of the Caspian sea by Ibn Hawqal 10th century map of the Caspian sea by Ibn Hawqal
Muḥammad Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal (محمد أبو القاسم بن حوقل), also known as Abū al-Qāsim b. ʻAlī Ibn Ḥawqal al-Naṣībī, born in Nisibis, Upper Mesopotamia; was a 10th-century Arab Muslim writer, geographer, and chronicler who travelled from AD 943 to 969. His famous work, written in 977, is called Surat al-Ard (صورة الارض; "The face of the Earth"). The date of his death, known from his writings, was after AH 368/AD 978.
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10th-century Arab people10th-century cartographers10th-century geographers10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate10th-century travelers10th-century writersBalkhi schoolMedieval travel writersTravel writers of the medieval Islamic worldWriters from BaghdadYear of birth unknownYear of death unknown