MUQADDASI Abuabdulloh Muhammad ibni Ahmad

MUQADDASI Abuabdulloh Muhammad ibni Ahmad (946/47, Bay-tulmuqaddas — 1000), sayyoh, muarrikh va geografi arab. Dar borai u ma-lumoti tarjumaiholi kam ast. Muqqadasi ba mamlakathoi Sharq borho safar karda, soli 985 asari «Ahsan-ut-taqosim fi marifat-ul-aqolim» («Behtarin taqsimot dar marifati iqlimho»)-ro talif namuda, ba khonadoni So-moniyon tuhfa kardaast. Asar az muqaddima va du fasl iborat ast. Fasli 1 tavsifi umumii davlathoi Sharq, fasli 2 tavsifoti tarikhiyu geografii Khuroson, Siston va Movarounnahrro dar bar megirad. Muqaddasi dar on roje ba mavqei jugrofii davlatho, viloyatho va shahrho (Bukhoro, Samarqand, Marv, Khujand), yodgorihoi memorii onho (Madrasaho, masjidho, korvonsaroyho, bozorho) va gayra malumoti nodir gird ovardaast. Dar kitob inchunin dar borai urfu odat, tarzi zindagi, libos, mashguliyat (dehqoni, hunarmandi, chorvodori, tarzi obyori), chenaki darozi, vohidi pul, din, zabonhoi khalqhoi Osiyoi Miyona (sugdiyon, khorazmiho, forsho, turkho va gayra) malumoti purqimate mavjud ast. Nuskhahoi alohidai asar dar kitobkhonahoi Berlin, Istambul va Moskva mahfuzand. Soli 1877 kitob az tarafi sharqshinos de Gue dar Leyden ba zaboni nemisi tarjuma va nashr gardid.

Adabiyot: Materiali po istorii turkmen i Turkmenii, tom 1, Moskva—Leningrad, 1930. A. Valiev.