Al bakri, from the book of routes and realms, corpus of early arabic sources for west african history, levtzion and hopkins. This interesting and informative book by moses samuel, meng yew tee and. He lived his entire life in alandalus and never visited mali. The book of routes and realms abu ubaydallah albakri ghana is a title given to their kings. Book of roads and kingdoms ibn khordadbeh, written in the late 9th century by ibn khordadbeh, an abbasid civil servant in the province of jibal. The book of routes and realms abu ubaydallah albakri. Realms of kaos commonly abbreviated to rok is a hybrid textbasedgraphical mudmmorpg that. Bakri yahaya, rohaya latip, mohamed othman, and azizol abdullah. He collected his information from other arab historians and from andalusian arabs who had traveled to west africa. Kaos started from cooperation between the university of oregon and the.
Abu ubayd alaziz albakri lived in the eleventh century and died in 1094. Realms of kaos is a multiuser online role playing game designed to be simple for anyone to start playing but detailed enough. Moses samuel meng yew tee lorraine pe symaco editors. Book of roads and kingdoms or book of highways and kingdoms arabic. Abu ubaydallah albakri, the book of routes and realms. Abu ubaydallah albakri was a muslim scholar from cordoba, spain, who published a detailed description of the lands of western africa in 1068. An enhanced route discovery mechanism for aodv routing. In the book of realms, each player creates a character and teams up with other charcters created by friends. In this groundbreaking first book, zayde antrim develops a discourse of place, a framework for approaching formal texts devoted to the representation of territory across genres. Working together, the group might explore a cave, a dungeon, a city, a ruin, castle, a temple, a fort, the deep forest, the tops of frozen mountains, the flat desert sands or just the wide open plains. An alternative route to the academic track is the vocational track leading to the sijil. Rocs environment is richly detailed, and its theme flows seamlessly from one continent to the next, however, rocs greatest claim to fame is the level of challenge presented to players.
Realms of chaos roc is a mud which has been in operation since 1994 and is now one of the largest and most expansive online worlds ever created. Routes and realms explores the ways in which muslims expressed attachment to land from the ninth through the eleventh centuries, the earliest period of intensive written production in arabic. Pages 6287 contain an extract from the book of routes and realms describing west africa. Albakri, the book of routes and realms introduction. In the time that he was writing, mali did not yet exist as a kingdom.