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Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam ((ペルシア語:حدود العالم); an originally Arabic phrase meaning "The Limits of The World") is a tenth-century geography book written in the Persian language by an unknown author from Jōzjān.〔C. E. Bosworth in: Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition, s.v. ḤUDŪD AL-ʿĀLAM〕 ==Contents== Finished in 982 CE, it was dedicated to Abu l-Ḥārith Muḥammad bin ʿAbd-Allāh, a ruler of the local Farīghūnid dynasty. Its author is unknown, but Vladimir Minorsky has surmised that it might have been written by the enigmatic Šaʿyā bin Farīghūn, author of a pioneer encyclopedia of the sciences, the ''Jawāmeʿ al-ʿUlum'', for an amir of Čaghāniān on the upper Oxus in the mid-10th century.〔C. E. Bosworth in: Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online ed., 2010, (ḤODUD AL-ʿĀLAM )〕 The Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam is part of a larger work, consisting of: #A copy of the ''Jahān-Nāma'' ("Book of The World") by Muḥammad ibn Najīb Bakrān; #A short passage about music; #The ''Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam''; #The ''Jāmiʿ al-ʿUlūm'' ("Collection of Knowledge") by Faḫr ad-Din ar-Razi; The Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam contains information about the known world. The anonymous author reports about different countries (nāḥiyat), people, languages, clothing, food, religion, local products, towns and cities, rivers, seas, lakes, islands, the steppe, deserts, topography, politics and dynasties, as well as trade. The inhabited world is divided in Asia, Europe and "Libya" (i.e. Africa). The author counts a total of 45 different countries north of the equator. The author never visited those countries personally, but was inspired and guided by earlier works, for example by al-Istakhri's ''Book of The Paths And Provinces'' ((アラビア語:كتاب المسالك والممالك) - ''kitāb al-masālik wa l-mamālik''),〔Fr. Taeschner in Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition, s.v. DJUGHRĀFĪYA〕 or by the works of al-Jayhānī and Ibn Ḫurradādhbih. 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「Hudud al-'Alam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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