# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-masudi
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:37:07.811Z

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name: "Al-Masudi"
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description: "He crossed the known world in the 10th century and wrote it all down — not as devotion or conquest log, but as curiosity made systematic. The Meadows of Gold wove history, geography, and the lives of everyone from caliphs to fishermen into one sprawling record that still shapes how we read the medieval Islamic world."
tagline: "10th-century Arab historian, geographer, and traveller"
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birthDate: "896"
deathDate: "957"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 896, al-Masʿūdī spent decades traveling across the Abbasid heartlands and beyond, collecting accounts, observations, and oddities. He wrote over twenty works spanning theology, natural science, and philosophy, but his magnum opus The Meadows of Gold became the one that lasted: a genre-defying blend of universal history, scientific geography, social commentary, and biography. His contemporaries and centuries of scholars after called him the "Herodotus of the Arabs" — a polymath who treated the world as a text to be read closely. He died in 956, leaving behind a body of work that made the past legible.