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al-Masʿūdī (full name Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī, أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي), c.896 –956, was a historian, geographer and traveler.
Aug 28, 2024 · Al-Masʿūdī was a historian and traveler, known as the “Herodotus of the Arabs.” He was the first Arab to combine history and scientific geography in a large-scale work, Murūj al-dhahab wa maʿādin al-jawāhir (“The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems”), a world history.
Herodotus[ a ] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized:Hēródotos; c.484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Jan 18, 2012 · The Egyptians were the first who made it a point of religion not to lie with women in temples, nor to enter into temples after going away from women without first bathing: for almost all other men except the Egyptians and the Hellenes lie with women in temples and enter into a temple after going away from women without bathing, since they hold t...
Oleh kerana sumbangan luas beliau dalam historiografi pada zaman klasik, beliau dikira setanding dengan Herodotus, dan digelar sebagai Herodotus bagi orang Arab. Antara orang terawal yang memberi gelaran Herodotus Arab kepada al-Mas’udi adalah sarjana orientalis bernama Alfred von Kremer.
Jul 25, 2020 · Herodotus’ Histories is the first work of Greek prose history that has come down to us intact and is almost unique in its scale, scope, and ambition, setting a model for all antique historians ...
Jan 18, 2012 · Although the Greek historian Herodotus (l. c. 484-425/413 BCE) is often criticized for inaccuracy in his Histories, his frequently-anthologized On the Customs of the Persians is regarded as accurate. The passage is all the more interesting in that he contrasts the behavior and values of the Persians with those of the Greeks, with the Persians ...
