أحسن التقاسيم — المقدسي

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«عنق واضح وصلبهه ودش الى ادريس الشماخ اليماسى ' مولى المهدى وكتب له كتابا الى ابراهيم بن الاغلب عاماه 5 على أفريقية فخرج حتى وصل الى زوبلة وذكر لهم أنه طبيب وانه ولى من اولياثهم فاشلمان اليه وآنس به فشكا»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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Mentions: Correspondence (al-mukatabat)

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Diwan al-Barid (the postal diwan)· Diwan al-Insha' (the chancery)· Diwan al-Khatim (the seal registry)· Insha' (creative speech, and its legal application)· The Letters to Rulers and Kings· Sunan Abi Dawud 1505 — Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr· Sunan Abi Dawud 155 — Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)· Sunan Abi Dawud 1600 — Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Sources

al-Muqaddasi, Ahsan al-taqasim fi ma'rifat al-aqalim, ed. M. J. de Goeje (Leiden: Brill, 1877), Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum III

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islam.museum contributors. “أحسن التقاسيم — المقدسي — p. 254”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/geography-bga-vol03-003/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-11.

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Diwan al-Barid (the postal diwan)

The postal diwan as Abu al-Faraj Qudama ibn Ja'far prescribes it in Kitab al-Kharaj wa-Sina'at al-Kitaba: a diwan unto itself receiving dispatches from every province and forwarding each to its destination, presenting the barid masters' reports from all regions to the caliph or composing their digests, overseeing the station-masters, timekeepers and clerks of the relay routes, disbursing their rations and commissioning the keepers of itineraries in every misr — its chief required to be a man of trust. Al-Qalqashandi's Subh al-a'sha traces the barid from the Persian and Roman emperors through Mu'awiya, Abd al-Malik and the Abbasids, its suspension by the Buyids, its revival by al-Zahir Baybars between Egypt and Syria and its collapse after Timur's invasion in 804 AH, and describes the engraved silver plaques couriers wore and the relay stations from the Cairo Citadel to Qus, Alexandria, Damietta, Gaza, Damascus and Aleppo.