PersonAD 820 – AD 912
Ibn Khordadbeh
Also called: Ibn Khurradadhbih
Persian geographer who served as the Abbasid director of posts and intelligence; his Book of Roads and Kingdoms describes “al-Shila” (Silla) beyond China
Where they went
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In the Abbasid age Muslim merchants rode the monsoons from the Persian Gulf via India and Southeast Asia to Guangzhou in China. Ibn Khordadbeh recorded Silla beyond it.
People who appear alongside
- Jang BogoAD 846
Former Tang officer who set up the Cheonghae garrison on Wando, cleared the seas of pirates and dominated trade among Silla, Tang and Japan
Themes this person appears in
- The Rise of the Islamic WorldAD 570 – 1055
From the revelation to Muhammad to the Seljuk entry into Baghdad — 450 years in which a new faith from Arabia built a civilisation stretching from Iberia to Central Asia and reached as far as Silla by sea