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  "ar": "كتاب المسالك والممالك",
  "en": "Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik"
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  "ar": "كتاب ابن خرداذبه في الطرق والبريد والخراج وتجارة الطرق، من أوائل كتب المسالك والممالك في الجغرافيا العربية الإسلامية.",
  "en": "Ibn Khurdadhbih's book on postal routes, tax registers and the itineraries of merchants, one of the earliest works of the routes-and-realms genre in Arabic geography."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نظرة عامة",
     "markdown": "كتاب ابن خرداذبه في الطرق والبريد والخراج وتجارة الطرق؛ من أوائل كتب المسالك والممالك في الجغرافيا العربية الإسلامية."
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   "frontmatter": {
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    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ibn Khurradadhbih's book on roads, the post, kharaj and the commerce of the routes; among the first Books of Routes and Realms in Arabic Islamic geography."
    }
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "جائزہ",
     "markdown": "ابن خرداذبہ کی کتاب — راستے، ڈاک، خراج اور شاہراہوں کی تجارت پر؛ عربی اسلامی جغرافیہ میں کتاب المسالک والممالک کی ابتدائی کتابوں میں سے۔"
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