Abdul Mejid (explorer)

Abdul Mejid (fl. 1860) was a mullah and merchant from Kabul. He explored Central Asia (then called known as Tartary) for the British Empire.

Abdul Mejid's route across the Hindu Kush, Pamir, Transalai, and Alai Mountains (dotted line), with those of other early explorers in the region.

His name has been written many ways. These include Abdul Mejid, Abdul Mejíd, Abdul Medjid, Abdul-Medjid, Abdoul Medjid, and Abdool Mujeed.

References

Bibliography

• "Summary and Review", Allen's Indian Mail and Register of Intelligence..., vol. XII, London: William H. Allen, 14 June 1854.
• Curzon, George Nathaniel (1896), The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus (PDF), London: Royal Geographical Society.
• Reclus, Élisée (1884), Ravenstein, Ernst Georg; et al. (eds.), The Earth and Its Inhabitants, Vol. VI: Asia, Vol. I: Asiatic Russia, New York: D. Appleton & Co.
• Fedtschenko, Alexei Pavlovovitch (June 1874), "Le Khanat de Khokand et les Contrées Environnantes" [The Khanate of Kokand and Surrounding Countries], in Guyard, Stanislas; et al. (eds.), Bulletin de la Société de Géographie [Bulletin of the Geography Society], 6th ser. (in French), vol. VII, Paris: Ch. Delagrave & Co., pp. 609–626.
• James, Hugh Rees (1863), "Report on a Journey to Kokan", Selections from the Records of the Government of India, vol. XXXIX, Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, printing a letter dated 19 October 1861.
• Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke (26 March 1866), "Observations on Two Memoirs Recently Published by M. Veniuskof on the Pamir Region and the Bolor Country in Central Asia", Proceedings... (PDF), London: Royal Geographical Society, pp. 134–153.
• Waller, Derek (1990), The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia, Asian History, Vol. I, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, ISBN 0-8131-9100-9.
• Wolff, Joseph (1845), Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara in the Years 1843–1845 to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Connolly, New York: Harper & Brothers.
• Yule, Henry (1872), "An Essay on the Geography and History of the Regions on the Upper Waters of the Oxus", A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus (2nd ed.), London: John Murray, pp. xxi--xc.