BAKRI  lAbu 'Ubaid 'Abdallah

ibn 'Ahd ul 'Azfz ,11-$akriJ, (1o40-1o94), Arabian geographer, was born at Cordova . His best-known work is the dictionary of geographical names which occur in the poets, with an introduction on the seats of the Arabian tribes . This has been edited by F . Wiistenfeld (Gottingen, 1876-1877) . Another of his works was a general geography of the world, which exists in manuscript . The part referring to North Africa was edited by M`G. de Slane (Algiers, 1857)• See C . Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arab . Litteratur (Weimar, 1898), vol. i. p .