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The book "General Survey of Roads and Kingdoms" was written by Ibn Khordadbeh, another Persian scholar of 9th century CE, not by Estakhri. This was attested to in the article's cited reference, too. Hence, the paragraph's removal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.133.203.33 (talk) 00:36, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
issues of consistency arise when an Arab named person who wrote in Arabic is Persianized based on geographical considerations. FOr the interests of scholarly consistency, such a figure should be given the standard Arabic transliteration, Istakhri, not the transliteration used for modern Persian. This should be a general rule for all figures: if they wrote in Persian then by all means use the Persian transliteration of the Arabic script writing, but otherwise it is a scholarly nuisance and anonchronism to do this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.84.174.248 (talk) 15:25, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
