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" al-Balkhī, Abū Zayd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Biesterfeldt, Hans Hinrich
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English
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1060035
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ALei432
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Biesterfeldt, Hans Hinrich
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al-Balkhī, Abū Zayd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Biesterfeldt, Hans Hinrich
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,119 words)
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Abū Zayd Aḥmad b. Sahl al-Balkhī (d. 322/934) was a prolific author who wrote works—most of which are lost—on philosophy, medicine, geography, cultural history, theology, and religious history in the encyclopaedic tradition of al-Kindī (d. soon after 256/870), in whose Baghdad circle he is said to have moved. Al-Balkhī is best known as one of the founders of Islamic geography; his work—consisting of perhaps twenty regional maps with commentaries that provided information, beyond physical geography, on climate, agricultural products, and their influence
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Islam.
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ALei432.pdf
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