 921 AD).However Ibn Hawqal was more than an editor, he was travel writer writing in the style followed later by Abu Ubaydallah al-Bakri in his Kitab al-Masālik wa-al-Mamālik, a literary genre which uses reports of merchants and travellers.Ibn Hawqal introduces 10th century humour into his account of Sicily during the Kalbid-Fatimid dynasty.