From The Meadows of Gold is a book by Ali al-Masudi.
From The Meadows of Gold
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Ali al-Masudi
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Mas'udi (transl: Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī) (born c. 896, Baghdad, died September 956, Cairo, Egypt), was an Arab historian and geographer, known as the "Herodotus of the Arabs." He was one of the first to combine history and...