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Al-Mas'udi ((アラビア語:أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي), '; –956) was an Arab historian and geographer. He is sometimes referred to as the Herodotus of the Arabs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Al Masudi )〕 Al-Masudi was one of the first to combine history and scientific geography in a large-scale work, ''The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems'' ((アラビア語:مروج الذهب ومعادن الجواهر), ''Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawhar''), a world history. ==Birth, travels and literary output== Al-Mas'udi states that he was born in Baghdad and that he was a descendant of Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad. However, little else is known about his early years. He mentions his association with many scholars in the lands through which he travelled. However, most of what is known of him comes from his own works. Although Ahamd Shboul questions the full extent of al-Mas'udi's travels, even his more conservative estimation is impressive: Other writers include Sri Lanka and China among his travels. Lunde and Stone in the introduction to their English translation state that al-Mas'udi received much information on China from Abu Zaid al-Sirafi whom he met on the coast of the Persian Gulf.〔Mas'udi. ''The Meadows of Gold, The Abbasids''. Transl. Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone, Kegan Paul. London and New York, 1989, p. 11.〕 In Syria al-Mas'udi met Leo of Tripoli. Leo was a Byzantine admiral who converted to Islam. From him the historian received much of his information about Byzantium. He spent his last years in Syria and Egypt. In Egypt he found a copy of a Frankish king list from Clovis to Louis IV that had been written by an Andalusian bishop. There is not much known about how he supported himself during such extensive travels within and beyond the lands of Islam. Lunde and Stone speculate that like many travelers he may have been involved in trade. Near the ending of the ''The Meadows of Gold,'' the author Al-Masudi wrote: Shboul notes that al-Mas'udi rewrote ''Muruj al-dhahab''.〔Shboul. ''Al-Mas'udi and His World'', pp. 68–69.〕 The extant version is only an earlier draft from 947, not the revised 956 edition. Lunde and Stone note that al-Mas'udi in his Tanbih states that the revised edition of ''Muruj al-dhahab'' contained 365 chapters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al-Masudi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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