The Meadows of Gold: the Abbasids.(Book Review)

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by Masudi of Baghdad, Kegan Paul International, hb, pp470, 85.00 [pounds sterling]

Masudi was an outstanding geographer and travel writer born in Baghdad around 896 AD. He travelled widely--to India, Syria and Byzantium--before settling in Egypt ...

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