DATES OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES
| I. Khurdādhbih | first draft | 232/846 | |
| second ,, | 272/885 | ||
| Sulaymān | written down | 237/851 | |
| completed by Abū Zayd | 304/916 | ||
| Ya'qūbī, Geography | 278/891 | ||
| Jayhānī | became vazīr | 302/914 | |
| I. Faqīh | [used Jayhānī] | circa (?) | 290/903 |
| I. Rusta | circa or after | 300/912 | |
| Balkhī | wrote | circa | 308/920 |
| Battanī | died | 317/929 | |
| Qudāma, Kitāb al-kharāj | after | 316/928 | |
| Iṣṭakhrī, Kitāb al-masālik | written | circa | 318-21/930-3 |
| published | circa | 340/951 | |
| Mas'ūdī, Murūj al-dhahab | 332/943 | ||
| „ al-Tanbīh | 345/956 | ||
| Hamdānī | died | 334/945 | |
| I. Ḥauqal | circa | 367/977 | |
| Ḥudūd al-'Ālam | begun | 372/982 | |
| Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsim | text | 375/952 | |
| additions | 387/997 | ||
| Bīrūnī, Chronology | 390/1000 | ||
| „ India | circa | 421/1030 | |
| „ Canon | circa | 421/1030 | |
| „ al-Tafhīm | circa | 421/1030 | |
| Gardīzī, Zayn al-akhbār | 442/1050 | ||
| Bakrī | died | 487/1094 | |
| Kāshgharī, Dīwān-l-al-Turk |
[or |
466/1074
470/1077] |
|
| Idrīsī, Nuzhat al-mushtāq | 548/1154 | ||
| 'Aufī, Jawāmi' al-ḥikāyāt | before | 633/1236 | |
| I. Sa'īd | lived | 610-85/1214-86 | |
| Abul-Fidā, Taqwīm al-buldān | 721/1321 |
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