Talk:Hudud al-'Alam

Latest comment: 8 years ago by BrokenMirror2 in topic The name

The name edit

If this is a Persian-language manuscript, why is the title Arabic? Enaidmawr 00:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

What is the relation of a Geography book written in Arabic with the persian litterature ? Babak —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.3.22.108 (talk) 09:44, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

More importantly, why is it at this namespace if (a) Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam is the article lede and (b) the lower-case A doesn't make any sense in the first place? I'm in the middle of two or three other articles, but if you, dear Reader, could take a few minutes to Googlefu the books and scholar WP:ENGLISH WP:COMMONNAME for this baby, post the results here, and then move the page, that would be keen. — LlywelynII 12:34, 15 September 2011 (UTC)Reply


Please note that this is a Persian book and actually one of the earliest examples of New Persian prose works available to us. Only the title is in Arabic, otherwise the whole content is in Persian, and the author and the dedicatee were both Persians and Persian speakers. I edited the lead paragraph to make it more clear. BrokenMirror2 (talk) 23:55, 17 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject class rating edit

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 13:39, 9 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Contradiction in text edit

  1. "Its author is unknown, but Vladimir Minorsky has surmised that it might have been written by the enigmatic Šaʿyā bin Farīghūn"
  2. . "It was written by the Persian chronographer Abu l-Mu'ayyad ʿAbd al-Qayyūm ibn al-Ḥusain ibn 'Alī al-Farīsī in 1258"

So? Staszek Lem (talk) 23:41, 17 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

I figured it. See text fix. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:44, 17 March 2016 (UTC)Reply