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‘The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century’ [292] (345/388)
The record is made up of 1 volume (327 pages). It was created in 1800. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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APPENDIX, No. IT
established themselves in the confines of Hindustan and Persia:
that a commercial intercourse subsisted from the earliest ages
between the inhabitants of Arabia and the Hindus, cannot well
be doubted. The same learned author, Sir William Jones,
declares, that the " ports of Yemen, (or Arabia Felix,) must have
been the emporia of considerable commerce between Egypt and
India, or part of Persia*."
But it was not merely a few traders or merchants that settled
in Hindustan; according to a
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
f quoted by Pococke, whole
bodies of Arabians having emigrated from their own country, in
vaded and occupied the territories of India, in an age of very
remote antiquity J.
I have not leisure at/present to trace the subject with more
minute research; but I think it one that affords matter for inte
resting and curious investigation.
* Discourse on the Arabs.
+ Ahmed'the son of Joseph.
Reliquos Arabiae finibus egressos Indite regioncs occupasse," kc. Pococke
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The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century , translated from the author’s own manuscript, and collated with one preserved at the Library of Eton College by Sir William Ouseley.
Publication details: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co., Wild-Court, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, for T Cadell Junior and W Davies, Strand, London, 1800.
Physical description: One volume, initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxxvi), 327 pages, fold-out map.
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- 1 volume (327 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume.
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Dimensions: 280mm x 220mm.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- 306.37.C.18
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- ‘The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:38, 1:328, v-r:vii-v, back-i
- Author
- Ouseley, Sir William
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