Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim

A book by Shams al-Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Maqdisi, the Hanafi, arranged by the customary regions. ²

It describes the inhabited quarter of the world and its lands, its climate, its seas, mountains, rivers, roads and routes, its mines and its distinctive properties. ²

"Kashf al-Zunun" reports that the author said his book is indispensable to travellers and not to be done without by scholars and leaders. He compiled it after travelling through the regions and measuring their distances in farsakhs, and he relied on asking about places he had not seen himself. ²