Does anyone know how to obtain (purchase or borrow) a copy of the book called
Roads and Kingdoms written by Al-Bakri
quote: Book of Roads and Kingdoms or Book of Highways and Kingdoms (Arabic: كتاب المسالك والممالك, Kitāb al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik) is the name of an eleventh-century geography text by Abu Abdullah al-Bakri. It was written around 1068 in Cordova. Al-Bakri based his work on the accounts of merchants and adventurers such as Yusuf al-Warraq and Abraham ben Jacob. Despite the fact that al-Bakri never left al-Andalus, his writings are regarded as objectively reporting the accounts of other travelers by modern historians, and much of what he wrote is substantiated in other sources. He described a wide array of regions from the Atlantic Ocean to Central Asia, giving descriptions of the geography, people, culture and political situation in each region. The Book of Roads and Kingdoms exists today only in fragmentary form.
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Inter-library loan from your local library. Depending where you are located it can sometimes be free or a small fee.
Posts: 8675 | From: Tukuler al~Takruri as Ardo since OCT2014 | Registered: Feb 2003
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ausar thanks for the reply, though I would like to know if this book can be bought? I would rather buy this book if it's possible to get it somewhere, I have seen a french translations though I have not found a English translation of this book anywhere.
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