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Ibn Khordadbeh
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Persian geographer and official (died 913)
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Ibn Khordadbeh (820–912) was a male geographer, historian, musician, and writer from the Abbasid Caliphate. Born in Khorasan, he was educated in Baghdad and served as a student of Ishaq al-Mawsili. His fields of work included geography and ethnomusicology, and he wrote in Arabic.
His notable work is the *Book of Roads and Kingdoms*. He is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Key facts
- Born
- 820/825, Khurasan , Abbasid Caliphate
- Notable works
- Book of Roads and Kingdoms
- Relatives
- Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (father)
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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
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