Muḥammad Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal was a 10th-century Muslim Arab writer, geographer, and chronicler. His famous work, written in 977, is called Ṣūrat al-’Arḍ (صورة الارض; The face of the Earth shows one of the entrance to hollow earth on his map and also mentions people of that world. Ibn Hawqal was clearly more than an editor; he was a traveler who spent much of his time writing about the areas and things he had seen. He spent the last 30 years of his life traveling to remote parts of Asia and Africa. One of his travels brought him 20° south of the equator along the East African coast. .. His descriptions were, at the time, considered to be accurate and very helpful to travellers. cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/211_al-Istakhri.html
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