In Egypt he found a copy of a Frankish king list from Clovis to Louis IV that had been written by an Andalusian bishop. He presumably gathered information on Byzantium from the Byzantine admiral, Leo of Tripoli, a convert-to-Islam whom he met in Syria where his last years were divided between there and Egypt. Īl-Mas'udi may have reached Sri Lanka and China although he is known to have met Abu Zaid al-Sirafi on the coast of the Persian Gulf and received information on China from him. He also sailed on the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean and the Caspian. He also travelled to the Indus Valley, and other parts of India, especially the western coast and he voyaged more than once to East Africa. His journeys took him to most of the Persian provinces, Armenia, Georgia and other region of the Caspian Sea as well as to Arabia, Syria and Egypt. And a member of Banu Hudhayl tribe He mentions many scholar associates met on his travels through many lands:Īl-Mas'udi's travels actually occupied most of his life from at least 903/915 CE to very near the end of his life. Born in Baghdad, he was descended from Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, a companion of Muhammad. Apart from what al-Mas'udi writes of himself little is known.
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