Al-Masudi
10th-century Arab historian, geographer, and traveller
al-Masʿūdī (full name Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī, أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي), c. 896–956, was an Arab historian, geographer and traveler.
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Quotes
edit- Amongst the kings of Sind and Hind none treats the Muslims who are established in their domains with more distinction than the Ballahara.
- al-Masudi, Murujadh -dhahab , I, p. 170. quoted from Wink A Al-Hind, The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Volume 1 p 69