المدن العراقية في كتاب (صورة الارض)‎ لابن حوقل : دراسة في الفكر الجغرافي

Abstract EN

The books of the Arab Islamic geographical heritage are considered as the best evidence and witness on the products of the former Arab geographers and travelers.

They show the great role that Arhave done in the field of studying the world and record multiple views of the overall places they reached, and to refer to these views in particular which participated in the valuable construction of the Arab Islamic civilization.

It was necessary to stand at one of its pillars represented by the personality of Ibn Hawqal Al-Nisibi, who lived in the second half of the fourth century A.

H.

and died after 367 A.

H.

and his book " Surrat Al-Ardh", from which he devoted a whole chapter for the Iraqi cities (17 Pages).

It started with identifying the location of Iraq, and then moved on describing the most important rivers and resources before he described the Iraqi cities.

He identified their geographical location as well as the most important geographical, natural, and human features of those cities.

He relied on more than one scientific approach, since he has used the regional approach in reviewing the regions in his book in general and in his chapter about the cities of Iraq in specific.

In addition, he adopted the descriptive approach in describing the geographical phenomena for every city.