Al-Bakri

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Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Bakrī, ili jednostavno Al-Bakri (arapski: أبو عبيد عبدالله بن عبد العزيز البكري‎) (cca. 1014–1094) bio je al-andaluški (arapsko-španski) geograf i historičar. Najpoznatiji je po djelu Knjiga o putevima i kraljevima, koju je napisao 1068. a koja predstavlja jedan od najdragocjenijih izvora za srednjovjekovnu historiju zapadne Afrike, odnosno predstavlja detaljan opis tadašnjeg Ganskog Carstva, odnosno podatke o transsaharskoj trgovini i počecima dinastije Almoravida.

Literatura

• Lévi-Provençal, E. (1960), „Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī”, Encyclopaedia of Islam 2nd Ed. Vol. 1, Leiden: Brill, pp. 155–157 .
• Levtzion, Nehemia; Hopkins, John F.P., ur. (2000), Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West Africa, New York, NY: Marcus Weiner Press, ISBN 1-55876-241-8 . First published in 1981. Pages 62–87 contain an extract from "The Book of Routes and Realms" describing West Africa.
• Vernet, J. (1970), „Bakrī, Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbdallāh Ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn Muḥammad al-”, Gillispie, Charles C., Dictionary of Scientific Biography Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 413–414 .
• El-Bekri (1859), Description de l'Afrique septentrionale, Mac Guckin de Slane, translator and editor, Paris: Imprimerie Impériale . Revised edition with corrections (1913), Tangiers: Adolphe Jourdan. Available from Gallica.
• Reinaud, J.T. (1860), „Notice sur les dictionnaries géographiques arabes”, Journal Asiatique, 5 16: 65–106  . Al-Bakri's dictionary mentioned on page 75.
• White, Robert C. (1968), „Early geographical dictionaries”, Geographical Review 58: 652–659, JSTOR 212687 .

Vanjske veze

• Vernet, J. (2008) [1970-80]. „Al-Bakrī, Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbdallāh Ibn ʿAbd Al-ʿAzīz Ibn Muḥammad”. Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Encyclopedia.com. 
• The Culture of Al-Andalus: Geography, Unity Productions Foundation .