Book of Roads and Kingdoms or Book of Highways and Kingdoms (Arabic: كتاب المسالك والممالك, Kitāb al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik) is the name given to several medieval Arabic language texts dealing with geography:
- Book of Roads and Kingdoms (ibn Khordadbeh), written in the late 9th century by ibn Khordadbeh, an Abbasid civil servant in Jibal.
- Book of Roads and Kingdoms (al-Bakri), written in the mid 11th century by Abu Abdullah al-Bakri in Spain.
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