Ibn Khordadbeh
820 –912
Geographer, Historian, Musician, Writer
Lived 92 years
- Born in
- Khorasan
Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (Persian: ابوالقاسم عبیدالله ابن خردادبه; 820/825–913), commonly known as Ibn Khordadbeh was a high-ranking bureaucrat and geographer of Persian descent in the Abbasid Caliphate. He is the author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography.
Notable works: Book of Roads and Kingdoms, AL-Lahw wa'l-malahi Education: Baghdad
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