- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics; First printing of this edition edition (1 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141025352
- ISBN-13: 978-0141025353
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 385,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Much of his work has vanished, but Mas'udi's (c.890-c.956) matchless The Meadows of Gold has almost miraculously survived: a compendium of stories and information on what he knew of the worlds of the Middle East, the Far East and Europe. It is both a great monument to Islamic scholarship and a time capsule allowing us into the world over a millenium ago.
Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
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Mas'udi was born in Baghdad and is known as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs' because he was the first Arab to combine history and scientific geography in a large-scale work. He travelled extensively in India, the Middle East, and Africa. Al-Masudi wrote a 30-volume history of the world and recounted the experiences of his travels form Europe to India.
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This tiny volume is a nice selection of extracts from the writings of Mas'udi, assembled in a way that is intended to reflect the breadth of the author's interests. Nicely translated and accessible, with each extract helpfully given a heading to indicate its subject matter. Still, it's a shame the book is so short - and it just made me want to read the full text!
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