Masûdi

Masûdi, ABUL HASSAN ALI, an Arab traveller and author (died 957), was born at Bagdad about the end of the 9th century, and spent great part of his life in travel, visiting Egypt, Palestine, the Caspian shores, India, Ceylon, Madagascar, and perhaps even China. His chief works are the Annals, of which an abridgment, The Meadows of Gold, was printed with a French translation by Meynard in 1861-77 (one vol. of an English translation by Sprenger in 1841), and the Indicator.