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Aerial View of the Arab world. Most of the Arab world falls in the driest region of the world. Almost 80% of it is covered in desert (10,666,637 of 13,333,296 km2), stretching from Mauritania and Morocco to Oman and the UAE. [citation needed] The second most common terrain is the semi-arid terrain, which found in all Arab countries except ...
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Kitab al-Buldan (Arabic: كتاب البلدان, Book of the Countries) is a book written by the author, and geographer Abu Abbas Al-Yaqoubi (died 897) and it is one of the oldest Arab geographical sources dating back to the days of Abbasid Caliphate.
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Hamdan authored several books and articles in both Arabic and English. His most renowned work, The Personality of Egypt, was a comprehensive study of Egypt’s historical and geopolitical significance, drawing from over 900 references in multiple languages. His research also addressed themes such as the Arab world's economic and political ...
The Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam (Arabic: حدود العالم, lit. "Boundaries of the World," "Limits of the World," or in also in English "The Regions of the World" [1]) is a 10th-century geography book written in Persian by an anonymous author from Guzgan (present day northern Afghanistan), [2] possibly Šaʿyā bin Farīghūn. [1]
The books include illustrations so geometric that they are barely recognizable as maps. [7] These schematic maps do not attempt a mimetic depiction of physical boundaries. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] With little change in design, the treatises typically offer twenty regional maps and a disc-shaped map of the world surrounded by the Encircling Ocean. [ 6 ]
The political borders of the Arab world have wandered, leaving Arab minorities in non-Arab countries of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa as well as in the Middle Eastern countries of Cyprus, Turkey and Iran, and also leaving non-Arab minorities in Arab countries. However, the basic geography of sea, desert and mountain provides the enduring ...