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To next page Abul Mufakhir: Ashkal al-alam of Jayhani (1219 ) ------------------------------------- Taken from: Bulletin of the school of Oriental studies. 1949; A False Jayhani by V. Minorsky. |
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There are two copies of this mss in London; so I give both maps with their translations as taken from the Miller atlas. | ||||||||||||||||||
The manuscript is a Persian translation of an Arabic abbreviation of Istakhris work.
It is surely not written by Jayhani. The maps in the book resemble closely the maps ibn al-Balhi�s geography. With a bird on the world map that has its head pointing to China and its tail separating Egypt from Nubia. The tail of the bird represents the sources of the Nile; its body is the Mediterranean and the head the Black sea (or Caspian) its beak the Oxus and Jaxartes flowing into the Aral sea. |
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The Nile river in his map from Egypt. | ||||||||||||||||||