Description:Chapters: Hugh the Great, Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople, Al-Masudi, Gandaraditya, Wulfstan I, Congalach Cnogba, Ordono Iii of Leon, Wulfhelm Ii, Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: at-Tanbih wa-l-ishraf ("Notification and Review") Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Mas'udi (in Arabic transl: ) (born c. 896, Baghdad, died September 956, Cairo, Egypt), was an Arab historian and geographer, known as the "Herodotus of the Arabs." Al-Masudi (in Arabic ) was one of the first to combine history and scientific geography in a large-scale work, Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawhar (Arabic: translated The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems), a world history. Al-Mas'udi tells us that he was born in Baghdad. He was a descendant of Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad. However, we know little else about his early years. He mentions his association with many scholars in the lands through which he travelled. However, most of what we know of him comes from the internal evidence of his own works. Although Shboul questions the furthest extent sometimes asserted for al-Mas'udi's travels, even his more conservative estimation is impressive: Al-Mas'udi's travels actually occupied most of his life from at least 303/915 to very near the end. His journeys took him to most of the Persian provinces, Armenia, Azerbaijan and other regions of the Caspian Sea; as well as to Arabia, Syria and Egypt. He also travelled to the Indus Valley, and other parts of India, especially the western coast; and he voyaged more than once to East Africa. he also sailed on the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean and the Caspian. Others include Sri Lanka and China among his travels. Lunde and Stone in the introduction to their...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=46235We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 956 Deaths: Hugh the Great, Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople, Al-Masudi, Gandaraditya, Wulfstan I, Congalach Cnogba, Ordono III of Leon. To get started finding 956 Deaths: Hugh the Great, Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople, Al-Masudi, Gandaraditya, Wulfstan I, Congalach Cnogba, Ordono III of Leon, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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956 Deaths: Hugh the Great, Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople, Al-Masudi, Gandaraditya, Wulfstan I, Congalach Cnogba, Ordono III of Leon
Description: Chapters: Hugh the Great, Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople, Al-Masudi, Gandaraditya, Wulfstan I, Congalach Cnogba, Ordono Iii of Leon, Wulfhelm Ii, Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: at-Tanbih wa-l-ishraf ("Notification and Review") Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Mas'udi (in Arabic transl: ) (born c. 896, Baghdad, died September 956, Cairo, Egypt), was an Arab historian and geographer, known as the "Herodotus of the Arabs." Al-Masudi (in Arabic ) was one of the first to combine history and scientific geography in a large-scale work, Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawhar (Arabic: translated The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems), a world history. Al-Mas'udi tells us that he was born in Baghdad. He was a descendant of Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad. However, we know little else about his early years. He mentions his association with many scholars in the lands through which he travelled. However, most of what we know of him comes from the internal evidence of his own works. Although Shboul questions the furthest extent sometimes asserted for al-Mas'udi's travels, even his more conservative estimation is impressive: Al-Mas'udi's travels actually occupied most of his life from at least 303/915 to very near the end. His journeys took him to most of the Persian provinces, Armenia, Azerbaijan and other regions of the Caspian Sea; as well as to Arabia, Syria and Egypt. He also travelled to the Indus Valley, and other parts of India, especially the western coast; and he voyaged more than once to East Africa. he also sailed on the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean and the Caspian. Others include Sri Lanka and China among his travels. Lunde and Stone in the introduction to their...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=46235We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 956 Deaths: Hugh the Great, Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople, Al-Masudi, Gandaraditya, Wulfstan I, Congalach Cnogba, Ordono III of Leon. To get started finding 956 Deaths: Hugh the Great, Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople, Al-Masudi, Gandaraditya, Wulfstan I, Congalach Cnogba, Ordono III of Leon, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.