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Kitab Urat Al Ar By Abu L Qasim Ibn Hawqal books, The journeys of Abu l-Qa¯sim Ibn H?awqal, who might have been a merchant, took him to North Africa, Spain and the southern edge of the Sahara (947-51), Egypt, Armenia and Azerbaijan (c. 955), the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Khuzistan, and Iran (961-69), Khwarazm and Transoxania (c. 969), and Sicily (973). By about 988 CE the final version of Ibn H?awqal's Kitab ?urat al-ar? was ready. It is effectively both a continuation and an update of al-Is?t?akhri¯'s Kita¯b al-Masa¯lik wa l-mama¯lik and is also known under that same title. Ibn ?awqal transformed what was meant as a commentary on a series of maps into a work in its own right, which also included remarks on various countries or peoples bordering on the Islamic world, e.g. the Turks, the Khazars, the towns of southern Italy, the Sudanese and the Nubians. Although he owed much to al-Is?t?akhri¯'s work, Ibn H?awqal aimed to place the text firmly within his own period. He took great care to depict a region precisely in the state and at the date that he himself had seen it, with occasional references to the distant or more recent past. This is particularly true of the notes on economic matters, which form a complete break with convention. Ibn H?awqal was the only Arab geographer of the period who really sketched a vivid picture of production.
