Ibn Rusta, Abu Ali Ahmad Ibn Umar

Ibn Rusta, Abu Ali Ahmad Ibn Umar

 

Arab scholar and encyclopedist of the late ninth and early tenth century.

A Persian by birth, ibn Rusta wrote The Book of Precious Necklaces, of which only the seventh volume, containing valuable information about the peoples of the Near and Middle East and Eastern Europe, is extant.

WORKS

Kitab al-A’lak an-nafisa VII, autore Abu Ali Ahmed ibn Omar ibn Rosteh. Edited by M. J. de Goeje. Leiden, 1892. (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum, pars. 7.)

REFERENCES

Krachkovskii, I. lu. Izbr. soch., vol. 4. Moscow-Leningrad, 1957. (See Index.)
Zakhoder, B. N. Kaspiiskii svodsvedenii o Vostochnoi Evrope, vols. 1–2. Moscow, 1962–67.