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Description: Map of the lands of Islam in the tenth century AD, according to the geographer Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Muqaddasi, projected onto a modern world map. Works cited: Barthold, W. Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion. Trans. V. Minorskey. Taipei: Southern Materials Center, 1988. Bregel, Yuri. An Historical Atlas of Central Asia. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. ISBN 90-04-12321-0 Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. I-. London, 1982-. The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Ed. 12 vols. with supplement and indices. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1960-2005. Halm, Heinz. The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids. Trans. Michael Bonner. Leiden, New York and Köln: Brill, 1996. ISBN 90-04-10056-3 Kennedy, Hugh, ed. An Historical Atlas of Islam. Boston: Brill Academic, 2002. ISBN 90-04-12235-4 Le Strange, Guy. The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905. Le Strange, Guy. Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1890. Al-Muqaddasi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad. The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions. Trans. Basil Collins. Reading: Garner Publishing Limited, 2001. ISBN 1-85964-136-9 Power, Timothy. The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500-1000. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012. ISBN 978-977-416-544-3 Al-Rashid, Saad A. "Darb Zubaydah in the 'Abbasid Period: Historical and Archaeological Aspects." Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Vol. 8 (1978): 33-45. Al-Tabari, Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir. The History of al-Tabari. Ed. Ehsan Yar-Shater. 40 vols. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1985-2007. Wheatley, Paul. The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh through the Tenth Centuries. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN 0-226-89428-2 Wohaibi, Abdullah. The Northern Hijaz in the writings of the Arab geographers, 800-1150. Beirut: al-Risalah, 1973.
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