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Kitab Ikhwan as-safa (Book of the pure Brethren)
(950) Basra, author unknown.
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Taken from : Dieterici, Friedrich: Die Propaedeutik der Araber im Zehnten Jahrhundert
Dante's Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion (New Middle Ages by Gregory B. Stone
Also called: Ras�'il Ikhw�n as-Saf�'
An encyclopedia to popularize science.
It contains very little about Africa. It gives only some data about the following places:
Al Habasha , Kuku, Dunqula, Zanj, Zaghawa, and Great Jarma (Garamantes) also the coordinates of each place are given.
The sea of the west, the one of Gog and Magog the one of Zang, the Green Sea and the all encircling sea are situated outside the inhabited quarter. Al these seas are branches and channels of the all encircling sea and they are all salty.
The inhabitants of the other climates are inferior to these in their living by far, because they are ugly in appearance and their nature wild, as this is the case for the Zandj and Abyssinians and most peoples of the second, the sixth and seventh climate�.
The reason is that the inhabited quarter of the earth comprises some nineteen thousand cities, of nations numberless. Among these countless peoples are those of China, India, Sind, Zanj, the Hijaz and the Yemen, Abyssinia, the Nejd , Nubia, Egypt, Sa�id, Alexandria, Cyrenaica, Qayrawan, Tunis, Tangier, Britian, the Canary Islands, Andalusia, Rome, Constantinople, Kalah, - Berbers, Miyafarqis, Burjanis, Azerbaijanis, Nisibinis, Armenians, Damascenes, Georgians, Greeks, the folk of the two Diyars, of Iraq and Mahin, Khuzitan and Jebal, those of Khutlan, Badakhshan, Daylaman, Tabaristan, Jurjan, Jilan, Nishapur, Kirman, Kabulistan, Multan, Sijistan, Transoxiana, Jordan, Farghanah, Khwarizm, and the lands of the Khirghiz, Tibetans, and the dwellers in the land of Gog and Magog (end of list of countries).