Ibn al-Faqih

{{Short description|Persian Muslim historian and geographer}}

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| parents = Muḥammad ibn al-Faqih

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| main_interests = Islamic geography

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| major_works = Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan ("Concise Book of Lands")

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Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani ({{langx|fa|احمد بن محمد ابن فقيه همدانی}}) (fl. 902) was a 10th-century Persian{{cite book|last1=Donzel|first1=E. J. van|authorlink=Emeri Johannes van Donzel|title=Islamic Desk Reference|date=1 January 1994|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-09738-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/islamicdeskrefer00donz_0/page/147 147]|quote=Ibn al-Faqih: Persian author of a geography written in Arabic; ixth c. In his only surviving work The Book of the Countries, he describes his native town Hamadan and the countries of Iran, Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Rum, Jazira, Central Asia, Nubia and Abyssinia. North Africa, al-Andalus and Sudan are given merely a brief résumé.|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/islamicdeskrefer00donz_0/page/147}} historian and geographer, famous for his Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan ("Concise Book of Lands") written in Arabic.

In the 1870s the Dutch orientalist Michael Jan de Goeje edited a selection of geography works of Arab geographers in an eight-volume series titled Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum published by Lugduni-Batavae (Leiden) Brill publishers. Al-Hamadhānī's Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan was published in volume 5 of this series.

In 1967 second editions were printed by Dar Sadir (Beirut) and E.J. Brill (Lugduni Batavorum).