The fourth volume of Arabic medieval sources includes excerpts from works on geography and travel notes by Maghreb and Middle Eastern authors. Among the most important and interesting authors of the second half of the 13th - first half of the 14th centuries. - Zakariyya al-Qazwini, whose scientific activity and career experienced the consequences of the Mongol invasion and the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate, Abu-l-Fida' and Shams ad-din ad-Dimashki - the luminaries of Syrian science of the early Mamluk period, Shihab ad-din al-Nuwayri and Ibn Fadlallah al-'Umari - outstanding scholars of the heyday of Arabic writing in Mamluk Egypt, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi and the famous traveler Ibn Battuta, who made significant contributions to Arab-Muslim geographical literature.

CONTENTS: Preface (B . A. Popov) 10Introduction (M.A. Tolmacheva) 12Ad-Darjiny* (V.V.Matveev) 25Ibn Khallikan* {V.V.Matveev) 32Ibn al-Sa'y al-Baghdadi {V. V. Matveev) 36Zakariyya' al-Kazvyny (M.A. Tolmacheva) 45Ibn Sa'id al-Maghriby (L.E.Kubbel) 91Al-Malaty, Abu-l-Faraj Grygbriyus ibn al-'Ibry (L.E. Kubbel) 165Al-'Abdary (L.E.Kubbel) 170Al-Vatvat* (V.V. Matveev) 173At-Tijani* (V.V.Matveev) 178Kutb ad-din ash-Shirazy (V.V. Matveev) 180Ibn 'Idary al-Marrakushy* (V.V. Matveev) 193Ibn Abu Zar'* (V.V. Matveev) 200Yusuf al-Misry* (V.V.Matveev) 207Abu-l-Fida' (V.V. Matveev) 210Al-Harrani (V.V. Matveev) 272Ad-Dimashky (V.V. Matveev) 291An-Nuwayry (V.V.Matveev, M.A. Tolmacheva) 380Al-'Umary (M.A. Tolmacheva) 408Ibn Battuta ( V. V. Matveev) 492Index of names 573Index of geographical, ethnic and astronomical names 583Subject index 604Index of titles of essays 620