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Ibn Khordadbeh
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ibn Khurdadhbih, Abu-l-Ḳâsim ʻObajdallâh ibn ʻAbdallâh Ibn Ḫordâḏbeh
Persian geographer and official (died 913)
Key facts
- Born
- 820/825, Khurasan , Abbasid Caliphate
- Notable works
- Book of Roads and Kingdoms
- Relatives
- Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (father)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Place of birth
- Khorasan
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Baghdad
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Student of
- Ishaq al-Mawsili
- Field of work
- geography
- Image
- Khordadbeh.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0820-01-01
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- name in native language
- بوالقاسم عُبیدالله بن عبدالله اِبْن خُرْدادْبِهْ
- date of death
- 0912-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (Persian: ابوالقاسم عبیدالله ابن خردادبه; 820/825–913), commonly known as Ibn Khordadbeh was a high-ranking bureaucrat and geographer of Persian descent in the Abbasid Caliphate. He is the author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ibn Khordadbeh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.