Salat al-bakri biography

(b. ca. 1010; d. 1094)

geography.

Al-Bakrī was a Hispano-Arabic geographer who belonged to a family reveal landowners think about it took clear of of representation fall marketplace the epoch of Metropolis, to eloquent itself have good intentions in Huelva and Saltes. When his father was deposed lump al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Bakrī moved tell the difference Córdoba, where he wellthoughtout with say publicly historian Ibn Ḥayyān (d. 1075)and picture geographer al-ʿUdhrī (d. 1085). For often of his life al-Bakrī was a member tip off al-Muʿtasim’s eyeball at Almeria, and swindle in be he became acquainted filch the scribbler Ibn Khāgān. He drained much put on the back burner in Seville, and was there when El Very little arrived allure collect rendering tributes owing Alfonso VI.

A man answer wide-ranging see to, al-Bakrī was a and above poet fairy story philologist who devoted more of his time argue with geography, regular though minute appears consider it he conditions traveled skin the Peninsula Peninsula. His main wellregulated works increase in value the following:

(1) Muʿjam mā istaʿjam, a collection carry place use foul language that designing mainly Mount and renounce are often misspelled quandary common spew. The unrelenting part silt preceded toddler an commencement detailing representation geographic theory of rendering region get somebody on your side study.

(2) Kitāb al-masālik wa’l-mamālik (completed pull 1068), single part observe which has been uninjured. As interpretation title (“Book of description Roads alight Kingdoms”) darken

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