صفة جزيرة العرب

A book by Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Ya'qub al-Hamdani al-Yamani. It describes the Arabian Peninsula in length and breadth, its borders, its regions, its waters, the dwellings of its tribes, and its fortresses, castles and sites. ¹

It opens with an introduction on the peninsula's place in the inhabited world and its merit. ¹

It contains a section on the characters of the peoples of the regions in correspondence with the zodiac and the stars, drawn from Ptolemy, in which it describes the people of each of the four quarters. ²