 An anonymous epitome of the book was written in 1233 AD.In the 1870s the celebrated dutch orientalist Michael Jan de Goeje edited a selection of MS texts by Arab geographers, which was published by Brill, Leiden in an 8-volume series titled "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".