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Masalik al-Absar fi Mamalik al-Amsar

مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار

Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari's geographical encyclopedia: a first section on the earth — its measure, climes, seas, qibla, roads and the kingdoms of its cities — and a second on its inhabitants: nations, faiths, devotees, and the dynasties before and under Islam 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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A geographical encyclopaedia by Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari. 2

Its divisions

The first part is on the earth: its size, its climes, its seas, the direction of prayer, its roads, and the kingdoms of its regions. 2 The second part is on its inhabitants: the groups of peoples, religions and religious communities, and the states before Islam and under Islam. 2

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Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari

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Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari

Sources

  1. Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar — al-Umari (1924 printing), pp. 11-14
  2. Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar — al-Umari (1924 printing), p.11-14
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islam.museum contributors. “Masalik al-Absar fi Mamalik al-Amsar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/masalik-al-absar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari

Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari (700–749 AH), head of the Mamluk chancery's correspondence bureau and author of Masalik al-Absar and al-Ta'rif bi'l-Mustalah al-Sharif — who begged the reader's pardon that he 'had not braved Tihama nor plunged into Iraq': a compiler from books and informants, not a traveller.