Kitab al-Buldan
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Kitab al-Buldan (sometimes shorthanded to al-Buldan or Buldan) is translated as "Book of Lands" or "Book of Countries" and may refer to one of the following.
- Kitab al-Buldan (9th century) by Al-Yaqubi
- Kitab al-Buldan (9th century) by Al-DinawariAl-DinawariĀbu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawarī was a Persian polymath excelling as much in astronomy, agriculture, botany and metallurgy and as he did in geography, mathematics and history. He was born in Dinawar, . He studied astronomy, mathematics and mechanics in Isfahan and philology and poetry in...
- Kitab al-Buldan, Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan (10th century) by Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani.
- Kitab mu'jam al-Buldan (13th century) by Yaqut al-HamawiYaqut al-HamawiYāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī) was an Islamic biographer and geographer renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world. "al-Rumi" refers to his Greek descent; "al-Hamawi" means that he is from Hama, Syria, and ibn-Abdullah is a reference to his father's name, Abdullah...