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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Seriously overpriced here but a 5 star book,
By Gogol (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Meadows Of Gold (Hardcover)
You can buy this book (the penguin edition) for about $10 by the way (it is the edited version however about 115 pages)
Anyway, this is an wonderful book, Masudi describes a 9th - 10th century world of Northern Spain and its wars with Andalusia, France and its powerful king, Russia and its warlike pagan people, the ancient Turks, the Indians and their strange customs, Egyptian pyramids and ancient nations and Chinese all put together with stories about the peoples, ancient tales and adventures. This is a great travel book. Anyone who like reading Marco Polo or ibn Batutta will love this.
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An excellent book of history that's also fun to read,
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This review is from: Meadows Of Gold (Hardcover)
This book is not the same as the Penquin compilation. This is vol 6 of the work, and deals only with the Abbasid period (roughly 750-1258 CE). Beside the information you would expect in an original source historical account, there are anacdotes which are funny, moving, and give glimpses into the social fabric of the time. For example, a funny story about grammarians indicates the importance of grammarians at the time and the reverence accorded to every word of the Qur'an. An anacdote about one of the Caliphs shows him preferring poets and wits as friends.
It is well worth the money, and I'm just hoping the rest of the work will soon be available in translation.
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