Bakrān, Muḥammad b. Najīb, a geographer and the author of the Jahān-nāmah (‘World Book’). Information on his life is limited to conclusions that can be inferred from his book, in which only one date is mentioned: 605/1209 (see Bakrān, ed. Borshchevskiĭ, fol. 2b, introd., 10). From the text, it would seem that the work was completed in this year during the rule of Kh^ʷārazm-Shāh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Tekish (or Takash, r. 596–617/1200–1220), to whom it was dedicated, as the phrase ‘if it be seen by the compassionate and providential eye of the king (may Go…