The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal. An Arabian traveller of the tenth century / Translated from a manuscript in his own possession, collated with one preserved in the library of Eton College, by Sir William Ouseley.

  • al-Iṣṭakhrī, active 10th century.
Date:
1800
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Credit: The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal. An Arabian traveller of the tenth century / Translated from a manuscript in his own possession, collated with one preserved in the library of Eton College, by Sir William Ouseley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    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 f quoted by Pococke, whole bodies of Arabians having emigrated from their own country, in- a vaded and occupied the territories of India, in an age of very remote antiquity J. ] 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. + j tXaisd Ahmed the son of Joseph. + “ Reliquos Arabiae finibus egressos Indiae regiones occupasse,” &c. Pococke Spec. Hist. Arab. p. 40.