The Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam (Arabic: حدود العالم, lit. "Boundaries of the World" or "Limits of the World") is a 10th-century geography book written in Persian by...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Brahmin city. 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...

Island is Khark, the only city in the Khark District. Mentioned in the Hudud al-'Alam as a good source for pearls around 982 AD, Khark was visited by the...

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...

king". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 6 September 2021. Hudud, al-Alam (1970). Hudud Al-Alam, 'the Regions of the World': A Persian Geography, 327A.H...

anonymous author of Hudud al-'Alam/Boundaries of the World from the tenth century, and even before in Arabic in the works of Al-Jahiz (776–869), as in...

Muslim states to the south. The Hudud al-'Alam indicates that bows were manufactured for export. The region was known as Dar al-Kufr. In the twelfth century...

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

reference to the name is found in the 10th-century geography book known as Hudud al-'Alam. The last part of the name, -stān is a Persian suffix for "place". In...

was descended from the clan of Usama or Sama bin Lu'ayy bin Ghalib. Hudud al-'Alam mentions that the ruler was a Quraishite. Ibn Hawqal who visited Multan...

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 probably...

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 also controlled Lahore, though that city...

the Iġndr (*Uluġundur) of Ibn al-Kalbi (c. 820), the Vnndur (*Wunundur) of Hudud al-'Alam (982), the Wlndr (*Wulundur) of Al-Masudi (10th century) and Hungarian...

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...

River, a tributary of the Aragvi). In the tenth-century Arabic work Hudud al-'Alam, Tsanars are named Ṣanār (صنار). The name may be present in the ethnonymy...

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...