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The Arab world can also be divided into two continental parts: Asian, which has 12 states, and African, which is larger and has 10 states. [citation needed] Adjacent to the Arab world are 14 land neighbours and 4 sea neighbours. [citation needed] Geographically, the Arab world countries are further subdivided into four regions: [citation needed]
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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.
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 ...
Map of Arabia from the Kitab al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik by al-Istakhri (copy dated to c. 1306 CE). The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Arabic: كتاب المسالك والممالك, Kitāb al-Masālik waʿl-Mamālik [1]) is a group of Islamic manuscripts composed from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. [2]
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 Book of Roger" in Latin), is an atlas commissioned by the Norman King Roger II in 1138 and completed by the Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi in 1154. The atlas compiles 70 maps of the known world with associated descriptions and commentary of each specific location by Al-Idrisi.