Istakhri

Estakhri map, from the "Book of roads and kingdoms".

A map by Estakhri from the text Al-aqalim.

A map of the Persian Gulf by Estakhri.

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al Istakhri (also known as Estakhri, Persian: استخری‎‎, i.e. from the Iranian city of Estakhr, b. - d. 957 AD [346AH]^[1]) was a Persian medieval geographer in medieval Islam and traveler of the 10th century.

Career

Estakhri created the earliest known account of windmills. His Arabic language works included masalik al-mamalik (مسالك الممالك, "Traditions of Countries") and Suwar al-Aqaaleem ( صور الاقاليم, "Shapes of the Climes").

He was a traveller whose geographical work has been translated into German by Mordtmann. When Istakhari was in the Indus Valley he met another celebrated traveller, Ibn Haukul.^[2]

See also

• List of Iranian scientists

External links

• World Map of al-Istakhri
• Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1989). "al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik". The Encyclopedia of Islam, Volume 6. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 639-640. 
• de Goeje, M.J., ed. (1927). Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (1927), vol 1: Viae Regnorum descriptio ditionis Moslemicae auctore Abu Ishák al-Fárisí al-Istakhrí (in Arabic). Leden: E. J. Brill. 
• Ouseley, William, ed. (1800). The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century. London.  - Note: in fact, it is a work by Istakhri

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