Kitab Futuh al-Buldan
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Kitab Futuh al-Buldan is a book by Persian historian Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri.
The work by which he is best known is the Kitab Fulh ul-Bulddn ("Book of the Conquests of Lands"), edited by M. J. de Goeje as Liber expugnationis regionum (Leiden, 1870; Cairo, 1901). This work is a digest of a larger one, which is now lost. It contains an account of the early conquests of Mohammed and the early caliphs. Balgdhuri is said to have spared no trouble in collecting traditions, and to have visited various parts of north Syria and Mesopotamia for this purpose [1].
It has been translated by Philip Khuri Hitti as "The Origins of the islamic State" Columbia University 1916. The book has the form of a geographical description of the Caliphate empire in which the main information about each location is a political history of how it came to be included in the empire and some of the early political events. It is especially valuable because it was not used as a source by al-Tabari[citation needed].
He also made some translations from Persian into Arabic.[1]
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- ^ a b Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
