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Al-Muqaddasi and Human Geography: An Early Contribution to Social Sciences: II
[20.] Al-Muqaddasi, Ahsan at-taqasim fi ma‘rifat al-aalim. La meilleure répartition pour la connaissances des province, op. cit., p. xxiv.
[21.] Al-Muqaddasi, Palestine under the Moslems. A Description of Syria and the Holy Land, from A.D. 650 to 1500. Translated from the works of The Mediaeval Arab Geographers by Guy Le Strange. Published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. London: Alexander P. Watt, 1890, pp. 5-6. [22.] See A. Miquel, "Iqlim", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Brill Online 2010; print version: vol. 3, p. 1076.
[23.] S. M. Ahmad, "Al-Maqdisi", in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, C.C. Gillispie editor in Chief, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, vol. 9, p. 88.
[24.] See FSTC, Al-Muqaddasi: The Geographer from Palestine (published 09 January, 2009).
[25.] A. Miquel, "Al-Mukaddasi", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, op. cit.; A. Miquel and J.-P. Digard, "Géographie et ethnographie: le cas d'al-Muqaddasî (IV-X siècles)", in Le cuisinier et le philosophe. Hommage à Maxime Rodinson. Etudes d'ethnographie historique du Proche-Orient., Paris: P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1982.
[26.] Ibid, p. XXVII.
[27.]A. Miquel, "Al-Mukaddasi", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, op. cit.
[28.] Al-Muqaddasi, The Best Divisions for the Knowledge of the Regions. Ahsan al-Taqasim Fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim. Translated into English by Basil Anthony Collins. (Great Books of Islamic Civilization). Reading: Centre for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, Garnet Publishing, 1994, p. 189.
[29.]Ibid, p. 314.
[30.] Ibid, pp. 365-6.
[31.] Ibid, p.93.
[32.] Ibid, p. 215.
[33.] Ibid, pp. 95-6.
[34.] On the subject of Islamic weights and measures, see Walter Hinz, Islamische Masse und Gewichte umgerechnet ins metrische System. Nachdruck der Erstausgabe (1955) mit Zusätzen und Berichtigungen. Leiden: Brill, 1970 (Arabic translation: Al-makayil wa-'l-mawazin al-islamiya…, Amman, The Jordanian University, 1982); and Eliyahu Ashtor, "Levantine Weights and Standard Parcels: A contribution to the Metrology of the later Middle Ages", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 45, 1982, pp. 471-88.
[35.] A. Miquel, La Géographie humaine du monde musulman jusqu'au milieu du XIe siècle, Paris, Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1988, vol 4.
[36.] Al-Muqaddasi, The Best Divisions, translated by B. A. Collins, op. cit., p. 143.
[37.] A. Miquel, La Géographie humaine, op. cit., pp. 237-39
[38.] Ibid, p. 221.
[39.] Al-Muqaddasi, The Best Divisions, translated by B. A. Collins, op. cit., p. 83.
[40.] Ibid, p. 190.
[41.] A. Miquel, La Géographie humaine, op. cit., p. 347. ~ End ~ Back to the Table of Contents *The original article was produced by Salah Zaimeche, Salim Al-Hassani and Ahmed Salem. The members of the new FSTC Research Team have re-edited and revised this new version. The team now comprises of Mohammed Abattouy, Salim Al-Hassani, Mohammed El-Gomati, Salim Ayduz, Savas Konur, Cem Nizamoglu, Anne-Maria Brennan, Maurice Coles, Ian Fenn, Amar Nazir and Margaret Morris.
by: FSTC Research Team, Mon 15 February, 2010
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