Al-Mas'udi (Arabic: أَبُو ٱلْحَسَن عَلِيّ ٱبْن ٱلْحُسَيْن ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱلْمَسْعُودِيّ, ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī; c. 896 –956) was an Arab historian, geographer and traveler.He is sometimes referred to as the "Herodotus of the Arabs".A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology ...

The roles of jinns and ghouls in Arabic folklore are discussed by e.g. Al-Masudi (died 956). (The semantically related English genie is not derived from jinn, though it has been influenced by it through the 1001 Nights tales). julep (type of drink) جلاب julāb, rose water and a syrupy drink.

History. The Mudar and Rabi'a are recorded in central Arabia in the Arabic histories of the pre-Islamic period; the kings of the Kindah bore the title of "king of the Ma'ad (or Mudar) and Rabi'a", and they played a role in the conflicts with the Yemeni (southern Arab) tribes. It is unclear, however, in how far these tribes really emerged in the manner described, or are later, artificial ...

Biography. Al-Baladhuri's ethnicity has been described as Arab and Persian, although his sympathies seem to have been strongly with the Arabs, for Masudi refers to one of his works in which he rejects Baladhuri's condemnation of non-Arab nationalism Shu'ubiyya.. He lived at the court of the caliphs al-Mutawakkil and Al-Musta'in and was tutor to the son of al-Mutazz.

Description. The map is the extant western third of a world map drawn on gazelle-skin parchment approximately 87 cm × 63 cm. The surviving portion primarily details the western coast of Africa and the eastern coast of South America. The map was signed by Piri Reis, an Ottoman-Turkish admiral, geographer and cartographer, and dated to the month of Muharram in the Islamic year …

Istakhr (Middle Persian romanized: Stakhr, Persian: اصطخر, romanized: Istakhr also spelt استخر in modern literature) was an ancient city in Fars province, five kilometres (three miles) north of Persepolis in southwestern Iran.It flourished as the capital of the Persian Frataraka governors and Kings of Persis from the third century BC to the early 3rd century AD.

Early life. Al-Mahdi was born in 744 or 745 AD in the village of Humeima (modern-day Jordan).His mother was called Arwa, and his father was al-Mansur.When al-Mahdi was ten years old, his father became the second Abbasid Caliph. When al-Mahdi was young, his father needed to establish al-Mahdi as a powerful figure in his own right.

Ältere arabische Aufzeichnungen aus der Region existieren, allerdings hat der wichtigste Autor, Al Masudi, im 10. Jahrhundert wohl nur notiert, was ihm an der Küste über das Hinterland berichtet wurde. Daher wurde das Geschehen davor vor allem aus archäologischen Funden rekonstruiert, die verlässlicher sind als mündliche Überlieferungen. ...

Zenata (en berebere : ⵉⵣⵏⴰⵜⵏ Iznaten) son las variaciones del nombre que recibió un grupo de pueblos bereberes durante el periodo medieval, de los que descienden varias etnias actuales. El historiador y viajero Ibn Jaldún relata que fueron, junto con los Masmuda y los Sanhaya, una de las tres grandes confederaciones bereberes musulmanas de la Edad Media. [1]

Turan (Avestan: Tūiriiānəm, Middle Persian: Tūrān; Persian: توران, romanized: Turân, pronounced [tʰuːˈɾɒːn], "The Land of Tur") is a historical region in Central Asia.The term is of Iranian origin and may refer to a particular prehistoric human settlement, a historic geographical region, or a culture. The original Turanians were an Iranian tribe of the Avestan age.