# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/istakhri
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:52:45.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/istakhri"
name: "Istakhri"
slug: "istakhri"
description: "Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farsi al-Istakhri was a 10th-century travel author and Islamic geographer who wrote valuable accounts in Arabic of the many Muslim territories he visited during the Abbasid era of the Islamic Golden Age. These accounts would include both maps and descriptions of the Muslim world he was discussing. Istakhri also belonged to the Balkhi school of cartography, which he helped to popularize. Istakhri's writing style was innovative for its addition of Islamic traditions throughout the text, and for its inclusion in conjunction with the maps he presented. Istakhri met the celebrated traveller-geographer Ibn Hawqal, while travelling, and Ibn Hawqal incorporated the work of Istakhri in his book Kitab al-Surat al-Ard."
tagline: "Iranian geographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Al_Istakhri_map.jpg/330px-Al_Istakhri_map.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "850"
deathDate: "957"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.23
  momentum:             3.171989709800092
  historical:           19.98132133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Истахрӣ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Истахри Абу Исхак ибн Мухаммед ал-Фариси ал-Истахри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump