Greek and Pre-Islamic Iranian history have clear influence on the work. It is one of the few surviving sources that describes Jewish merchants known as Radhanites. Khordadbeh wrote other books. He wrote around 8–9 other books on many subjects such as "descriptive geography" (the book Kitāb al Masālik w’al Mamālik), "etiquettes of listening to music", "Persian genealogy", cooking", "drinking", "astral patterns", "boon-companions", "world history", "music and musical instruments". The book on music had the title Kitāb al-lahw wa-l-malahi which is on musical matters of pre-Islamic Iran. References Sources 820s births 913 deaths Year of birth uncertain Geographers from the Abbasid Caliphate 10th-century Iranian geographers 9th-century Iranian writers 10th-century Iranian writers Explorers of India