Book of Roads and Kingdoms
- Book of Roads and Kingdoms
"Book of Roads and Kingdoms" or "Book of Highways and Kingdoms" ( _ar. كتاب المسالك والممالك, "Kitāb al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik") is the name given to several medieval Arabic language texts dealing with geography:
*"Book of Roads and Kingdoms" (ibn Khordadbeh), written in the late 9th century by ibn Khordadbeh, an Abbasid civil servant in Jibal.
*"Book of Roads and Kingdoms" (al-Bakri), written in the mid 11th century by Abu Abdullah al-Bakri in Spain.
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