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Al-Masudi
Al-Mas‘udi
(, ; –956) was an
Arab historian
and
geographer
. He is sometimes referred to as the
Herodotus
of the Arabs. Al-Mas‘udi was one of the first to combine
history
and scientific
geography
in a large-scale work,
The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems
(,
Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawhar
), a world history.
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