The Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam (Arabic: حدود العالم, lit. "Boundaries of the World," "Limits of the World," or in also in English "The Regions of the World") is a...

treaty Hudud al-Alam gave a description of the cultures and ways of life of Kimeks and Kipchaks. The Kimaks led a semi-settled life, as the Hudūd mentioned...

century, and were one of seven original tribes. In the 10th-century Hudud al-'Alam it is said that the Kimek appointed the Kipchak king. The Kimek confederation...

name is the Hudud al-'Alam ("The Regions of the World"), written in 982 CE. Lahore's name had been recorded by early Muslim historians as Al-Ahwar, A'lahwur...

called it a land of infidels (dar al-kufr) annexed to Islamic domain because of its Muslim minority. However Hudud al-'Alam stated it had a mostly-Muslim...

Arabic-language book that the Rus' had a prince called khāqān rus or Khaqan-Rus. Hudud al-'Alam (anonymous late-10th-century Persian-language geography text) refers...

(indri vaddani), and the ingestion of cow-meat (bhas khana). Hudud, al-Alam (1970). Hudud Al-Alam, 'the Regions of the World': A Persian Geography, 327A.H...

name Osrušana is not clear from the sources, but the forms given in Hudud al-'alam, indicate an original *Sorušna. From the fifth to the seventh century...

them. According to Hudud al-'alam "their king is from the family of the Toquz-Oghuz kings." According to the Persian work Mujmal al-Tawarikh wa-'l-Qisas...

century CE, chapt. 11, verse 61 The word Afghan also appeared in the 982 Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam, where a reference is made to a village, Saul, which was probably located...

203 Hudūd al-'Ālam "Sections 18, 19, 21" Translated and Explained by V. Minorsky (1937). p. 99-101 Minorsky, V.F. (1937) Commentary on Hudūd al-'Ālam on...

Seguy, the penultimate ruler of the Western Turkic Khaganate, since the Hudud al-'Alam says the Khazar king descended from the Ansa, which has been interpreted...

it was used more generally for autonomous Muslim rulers, as in the Hudud al-'Alam of the 10th century, where even some petty princes of Afghanistan are...

geographical works such as Istakhri's Kitab al-Masalik (930-933 CE), the Hudud al 'Alam (982 CE), Qazvīnī's Nuzhat al-Qulub etc. As a dry region among the Khorasan...

Sea is called Siyābun. In the tenth-century Persian geography book Hudud al-'Alam, the Black Sea is called Georgian Sea (daryā-yi Gurz). The Georgian...

tour of India. The first document that mentions Lahore by name is the Hudud al-'Alam ("The Regions of the World"), written in 982 CE, in which Lahore is...

Province of Afghanistan. By the 10th century, Ibn Khordadbeh and the Hudud al-'Alam report the southern part of the Hindu Kush, i.e. the regions of Sistan...

Tarki corresponds more closely to medieval sources, as the 10th-century Hudud al-'Alam reports that Samandar was on the coast, and archaeological finds from...

culturally well-suited for trade with the Islamic world. The 10th century Hudud al-'Alam notes that Multan's rulers were also in control of Lahore, though that...

"Khazar Pechenegs" mentioned in the 10th-century Hudud al-'alam had its origin in this period. The Hudud al-'Alam—a late 10th-century Persian geography—distinguished...

century CE, chapt. 11, verse 61. The word Afghan also appeared in the 982 Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam, where a reference is made to the village of Saul, which was estimated...

Sasanian king Shapur II (r. 309–379). The 10th-century Persian geography Hudud al-'Alam refers to it as Shav.ran, whilst The Georgian Chronicles calls it Shaburan...

Merv, Herat and Balkh. By the 10th century, Ibn Khordadbeh and the Hudud al-'Alam mentions what roughly encompasses the previous regions of Abarshahr...

ancient times came to the land between al-Hind and Sijistān, behind al-Ghūr". The mid-10th-century book Hudud al-'Alam described the Khalaj as sheep-grazing...

standards. The principal imperial standard of the Mughals was known as the alam (Alam علم). It was primarily moss green. It displayed a lion and sun (Shir-u-khurshid...

unnamed daughter, who married his Samanid overlord Nuh II. About 982, the Hudud al-'alam was dedicated to Abu'l Haret by an unknown author, who may have been...

Sultan Mahmud (r. 999–1030). According to the unknown author of the Hudud al-'Alam, the Farighunid family descended from the legendary Iranian king Afridun/Faridun...

Khazars, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954. V. Minorsky, Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam (1937), 451–4 (E.J.W. Gibb Memorial, 11) G. Moravcsik, Byzantinoturcica...

used, as synonyms, for the entire subcontinent." The 10th century text Hudud al-Alam defined Hindustan as roughly the Indian subcontinent, with its western...

Aś(i)nas (al-Tabari), Ānsa (Hudud al-'Alam), and Śaba (Ibn Khordadbeh)), and Afrasiab, whom 11th-century Karakhanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari identified with...