The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur

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Cosimo, Inc., 1 de jan. de 2010 - 576 páginas
The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1905, is an anthology of geographical and historical works on Mesopotamia, Persia, and the surrounding areas of Central Asia by medieval Arab, Persian, and Turkish Muslim geographers. The translated works begin with writings from A.D. 864, and conclude with works from the early seventeenth century. While not an exhaustive geographical history, the description of each province includes information on manufacture and trade, towns, roads, bodies of water, and other topical areas of interest. There are also maps of several provinces as well as an extensive index. The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate is a complementary work to Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphate, and includes some records from Palestine under the Moslems, making this work ideal for any student of Le Strange's translations. GUY LE STRANGE (1854-1933) was born in Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, as the youngest son of Henry L'Estrange Styleman. He studied Arabic and Persian at the College de France in Paris, after which he spent many years traveling and living abroad in Persia, Florence, and Palestine. He settled in Cambridge in 1907, where he contributed to The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, of which he was a member until his death. Le Strange was the editor and translator of several well-known books on the Middle East and Islam, establishing him as one of the most recognized historical geographers of medieval Islam to write in English.
 

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CHAPTER I
1
Index 491
23
The division of Mesopotamia Northern and Southern Irak or Babylonia
24
CHAPTER III
39
CHAPTER IV
53
The bifurcation of the Euphrates The Sura channel Kasr Ibn Hubayrah
70
CHAPTER VI
85
CHAPTER VII
101
CHAPTER XVIII
262
CHAPTER XIX
275
CHAPTER XX
288
The five districts of Kirman The two capitals Sirjin the first capital
299
CHAPTER XXII
311
CHAPTER XXIII
321
CHAPTER XXIV
333
kuhistAn
352

CHAPTER VIII
115
RUM OR ASIA MINOR
127
CHAPTER X
144
CHAPTER XI
159
CHAPTER XII
172
The province of Jibal or Irak Ajam with its four districts Kirmasrn
187
CHAPTER XIV
200
CHAPTER XV
214
CHAPTER XVI
232
fArs
247
CHAPTER XXVI
364
CHAPTER XXVII
382
The Darabjird Kurah or Shabankarah district Daribjird city Darken
388
CHAPTER XXVIII
397
KHURASAN continued
407
CHAPTER XXX
420
CHAPTER XXXI
433
CHAPTER XXXII
446
CHAPTER XXXIII
460
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