Ahmad ibn Rustah
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Ahmad ibn Rustah
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Ahmad ibn Rusta Isfahani, more commonly known as ibn Rusta, was a tenth-century Muslim Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta, Isfahan in the Abbasid Caliphate. He wrote a geographical compendium known as the Kitāb al-A‘lāq al-Nafīsa. The information on Isfahan is especially extensive and valuable. Ibn Rusta states that, while for other lands he had to depend on second-hand reports, often acquired with great difficulty and with no means of checking their veracity, for Isfahan he could use
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10th-century Persian explorer and geographer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Rustah
date created:
2004-02-06T11:05:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T16:09:04Z
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