Ibn Khurradadhbih, Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah
ابن خرداذبه عبيد الله بن عبد الله
820 CE · 205 AH – 893 CE · 280 AH
A historian and geographer of encyclopaedic learning, author of al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik.
At a glance
- Roles
- geographer · Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
Geography and cartographyHistory-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- Traveller and observerTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Qasim Ubayd Allah ibn Abdallah ibn Khurradadhbih, a historian and geographer of encyclopaedic learning, author of al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik (Routes and Realms). He was born in 205 AH (820 CE) and died in 280 AH (893 CE). 1
What is reported of him
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People and things also explored
Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz· Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah· Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq· The seven climates· Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· The earth's sphericity· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Joining the Red Sea to the Mediterranean
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Khurradadhbih, Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-khurradadhbih-ubayd-allah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.