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Hudud al-Alam
The Hudud al-Alam, 'The Limits of the World', is an anonymous Persian geography completed in 982 and dedicated to the Farighunid amir Abu'l-Harith Muhammad of Guzgan. It describes the countries and peoples of the known world region by region. One of the earliest prose works in New Persian, it is an important source for Central Asia, the steppe peoples and the Turks.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Hudud al-Alam. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hudud-al-alam
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