Kitab al-Rawd al-Mitar

{{Short description|Book by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim al-Ḥimyarī}}

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| name = Kitab al-Rawd al-Mitar

| title_orig = كتاب الروض المعطار في خبر الأقطار

| translator = Évariste Lévi-Provençal (French), María Pilar Maestro González (Spanish)

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| author = Muhammad bin Abd al-Munim al-Himyari

| country = Hafsid Caliphate

| language = Arabic

| genre = Geography

| subject = History of Muslim Iberia

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| pub_date = 14th century

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| media_type = Print

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Kitāb al-Rawḍ al-miʿṭār fi khabar al-aqṭār (The Book of the Fragrant Garden) is a fourteenth-century Arabic geography by al-Ḥimyarī that is a primary source for the history of Muslim Iberia in the Middle Ages, though it is based in part on the earlier account by Muhammad al-Idrisi. Very little is known about the author, except that he was close to the Hafsid dynasty. It was edited and translated into French by Évariste Lévi-Provençal in 1938Levi Provençal and al-Munim al-Himyari, La Peninsule iberique au Moyen age d'après le Kitab al-Rawd al-mitar d'Ibn Abd al-Mun'im al-Himayari (Leiden, E. J. Brill) 1938 and into Spanish by María Pilar Maestro González in 1963.Maestro González, Kitab ar-Rawd al-Mitar (Valencia) 1963.