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Excerpt from The Oriental Geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian Traveller of the Tenth Century Besides the intrinsick merits of the work, its authenticity and antiquity induced me to regard it as the most important of all compositions on the subject of Oriental Geography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.