The best divisions in knowing the regions

The book is one of the most famous geographical encyclopedias that appeared in the fourth century AH - the tenth of AD, and its work was singled out by Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ahmed Al -Maqdisi by mentioning the Islamic provinces and the seas, lakes and rivers, and describing its famous cities and its mentioned cities, its haunted homes, its used methods, and the elements of the drugs And machines, pregnancy minerals and trade, and the different people of the countries in their words, voices, tongues, colors, doctrines, measures and weights, their money and their flaws, the recipe of their food, their drink, their food, their fruits and their water, the knowledge of their pride and disadvantages, what it carries and to them, mention the places The mountains, minerals of capacity and fertility, the places of distress and hardship, mention the scenes, observatories, characteristics, kingdoms, borders and sources, and mentioning the Sanayeh and science.