This article analyzes George Sarton’s role in the study of the scholarly legacy of Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Bakrī from historiographical and source-critical perspectives. The study examines Sarton’s assessments of al-Bakrī’s personality, scholarly legacy, and place in the history of science in the Islamic West as presented in his Introduction to the History of Science. The article characterizes al-Bakrī as one of the prominent geographers of the eleventh-century Islamic West and as an author who recorded valuable ethnographic information about different peoples, their ways of life, customs, and natural and geographical environments. It also emphasizes that his works contain information on flora, natural resources, and geographical conditions and therefore constitute valuable supplementary sources for the study of the history of medieval botany. The scholarly assessments of al-Bakrī’s Kitāb al-Masālik wa-l-Mamālik (“The Book of Routes and Kingdoms”) and Muʿjam mā istaʿjam (“Dictionary of Geographical Names”) offered by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, George Sarton, and Ignatiy Yulianovich Krachkovsky are comparatively analyzed.

George Sarton, Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī, geography, ethnographic information, toponymy, scientific methodology, Arabic sources, Arabian Peninsula, Islamic West.

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