Indus River. Editions An anonymous epitome of the book was written in 1233 AD. In the 1870s, the famous Dutch orientalist Michael Jan de Goeje edited a selection of manuscript texts by Arab geographers, which was published by Brill, Leiden in the eight-volume series Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum. Ibn Haukal's text was the second volume published in 1873 under the Latin title Viae et Regna, descriptio ditionis Moslemicae auctore Abu'l-Kásim Ibn Haukal - "Routes and Realms, a description of Muslim territories by the author Abu'l-Kásim Ibn Haukal". See also Istakhri Al-Maqdisi Ibn al-Faqih Qudama ibn Ja'far Ibn Khordadbeh Ibn Rustah Al-Ya'qubi Al-Masudi Muslim scholars References Further reading James, Preston Everett. All Possible Worlds: A History of Geography. New York: Wiley, 1981. External links Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 10th-century geographers 10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate 10th-century writers 10th-century Arabs Balkhi school Travel writers of the medieval Islamic world Writers from Baghdad 10th-century travelers 10th-century cartographers