Al Masudi
Al Mas'd ( Arabic : Abu al-Hasan Al ibn al-Husayn ibn Al al-Mas udi) born in Baghdad on an unknown date, died in Fustat in 956 (?), is an encyclopedic the tenth century at the height of classical Islam. His Muruj-Dhahabi or grasslands remain gold until the mid fifteenth century reference manual geographers and historians of Arabic or Persian. He has traveled extensively throughout the Islamic empire in Spain , Russia , India and China. It is called by historians the Herodotus Arabic because it demonstrates analysis, reflection and criticism. In his encyclopedia , he addresses the world from its inception to the writing of his work in 947 during the caliphate of al-Muttaqi. It analyzes the history, religion and geography based on ancient texts of the various peoples dominated ( Syria , Egypt , Persia , India , Transoxiana ...).
His work
The Prairie Gold have been translated into French by Charles Barbier de Meynard and Pavet Courteille of the nineteenth century, translation reviewed by Charles Pellat in 1962.
External Links
- Muruj al-Dhahabi site Medieval Sourcebook: The Book of Golden Meadows, c. EC 940
- Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems, Translation of the year Franais Muruj al-Dhahabi by Aloys Sprenger, London 1841
- http://www.archive.org Vol 1
- Prairie Gold, Arabic text and French translation of al-Dhahabi Muruj by Barbier de Meynard and Pavet of Courteille, Paris 1861-1877
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