Istakhri

Istakhri's two surviving works are:

• Masālik al-Mamālik ({{lang|ar|مسالك الممالك}}, Routes of the Realms), or Kitab al-masalik wa-l-mamalik (كتاب المسالك والممالك Book of Roads and Kingdoms), a contribution to the "Book of Roads and Kingdoms" tradition. This combines maps with descriptive text to describe the geography of Iran and surrounding kingdoms. It is based mainly on lists of stations of postal routes, and seems intended to help commit those lists to memory rather than to guide travellers through the territory. There is no consistency between the map projections. An illuminated manuscript (MS Or. 3101) dated AH 589 (AD 1193) is held by Leiden University Libraries and is digitally available.{{cite web|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1577846 |title=Digital version of An abridgement of Kitāb al-masālik wa-al-mamālik by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Iṣṭaḵrī – Or. 3101 |publisher=Leiden University Libraries |access-date=2024-04-10}} Another illuminated manuscript dated AH 706 (AD 1306–07) now resides in the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. It contains many maps, though some mentioned in the text are missing.{{cite book |last=Rogers |first=J. M. |title=The arts of Islam : treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili collection |date=2008 |edition= Revised and expanded|publisher=Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) |location=Abu Dhabi |oclc=455121277 |authorlink=J. M. Rogers|page=167}}
• Ṣuwar al-ʿAqālīm ( {{lang|ar|صور الاقاليم}}, Pictures of the Regions).

An 8-volume edition of works by medieval Arab geographers, edited by the Dutch orientalist Michael Jan de Goeje in a series titled Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum was published by Brill, Lugduni-Batavora (Leiden) in the 1870s. An edition of Istakhri's MS text was produced for the first volume under the Latin title Viae Regnorum descriptio ditionis Moslemicae – "Description of Roads of the Kingdoms in Muslim territories". In 1927, the editor Theodore Noldeke produced a second edition.

In 1845, the German orientalist A. D. Mordtmann published a translation in Hamburg with the title Das Buch der Länder von Schech Ebu Ishak el Farsi el Isztachri, with a foreword by C. Ritter. (Schriften der Akademie von Ham Bd. 1, Abth. 2).

• Ibn Hawqal
• Al-Maqdisi
• Ibn al-Faqih
• Qudama ibn Ja'far
• Ibn Khordadbeh
• Ibn Rustah
• Al-Ya'qubi
• Al-Masudi
• List of Iranian scientists
• Surat Al-Ard

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• {{cite encyclopedia | article = EṢṬAḴRĪ, ABŪ ESḤĀQ EBRĀHĪM | last = Bolshakov | first = O. G. | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/estakri-abu-eshaq-ebrahim | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 6 | pages = 646–647 | year = 1998 }}
• {{cite book|last=Bosworth|first=Clifford Edmund|title=The Encyclopedia of Islam, Volume 6|year=1989|publisher=E. J. Brill|location=Leiden|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tPsUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA639 639]-[https://books.google.com/books?id=tPsUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA640 640]|chapter=al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik}}
• {{cite book|title=Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (1927), vol 1: Viae Regnorum descriptio ditionis Moslemicae auctore Abu Ishák al-Fárisí al-Istakhrí|year=1927|publisher=E. J. Brill|location=Leden|url=https://archive.org/details/BibliothecaGeographorumArabicorum1927Vol1ViaeRegnorumDescriptio|editor=de Goeje, M.J.|language=ar}}
• {{cite book|title=The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century|year=1800|location=London|url=https://archive.org/details/orientalgeograp00agoog|editor=Ouseley, William}} – {{resize|Note: in fact, it is a work by Istakhri}}
• {{citation| last=Al-Istakhri|first=Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad|editor1-last=Goeje|editor1-first=M. J. de|editor2-last=Noldeke|editor2-first=Theodore|title=Viae Regnorum descriptio ditionis Moslemicae auctore Abū Ishāk al-Fārisi al-Istakhri |journal=Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum|publisher=Brill publishers|place=Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden)|year=1927|volume=1| edition=2|language=ar, la|url=https://archive.org/details/BibliothecaGeographorumArabicorum1927Vol1ViaeRegnorumDescriptio}}
• {{citation|last=Ibn Haukal|editor-last=Goeje|editor-first=M. J. de|title=Viae et regna, descriptio ditionis moslemicae auctore Abu'l-Kasim Ibn Haukal|journal=Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum|publisher=Brill publishers|place=Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden)|year=1873| volume=2| language=ar, la|url=https://archive.org/details/viaeetregnadescr02ibnh/page/n426}}
• {{citation|editor-last=Goeje|editor-first=M. J. de|title=Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad Part I-III|journal=Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum|publisher=Brill|place=Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden)|year=1870| volume=4| language=ar, la|url=https://archive.org/details/bibliothecageogr04goejuoft/page/n5}}
• {{citation| translator-last=Mordtmann |translator-first=Andreas David |title=Das Buch der Länder von Schech Ebu Ishak el Farsi el Isztachri |publisher=Rauhen Hauses in Horn | place=Frankfurt/M.| orig-year=1845|year=1995 | url=https://archive.org/details/dasbuchderlnde00ista}}

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