Masqaṭ
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“(lat. 23° 28′ N., long. 58° 36′
E.), Eng. Muscat, Fr.Mascate, a port on the Gulf of Oman and since the end of the 18th
century notionally the capital of what came to be called the ¶ Sultanate of Muscat and
Oman, since 1970 the Sultanate of Oman.” 4
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 23.6° Long. 58.55°
- Within Beth Qaṭraye.
Descriptions
“ثم ركبت البحر، فوصلت إلى مسقط (بفتح الميم)، وهي بلدة صغيرة بها السمك الكثير المعروف بقلب الماس” 3
“وشكلت عطفه عليه لان بحر فارس يعطف من جزيرة مسقط مغربا الى مكة
والى القلزم عن خمسين فرسخا من عمان ويدعى ذلك راس الجمجمة” 2
The capital and largest city in ʿUmān.
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"Muscat, Oman" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 87.
- 2 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 7.
- 3 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 661.
- 4 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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Thomas A. Carlson, “Masqaṭ.” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, Mario Kozah and Thomas A. Carlson. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2943.About this Entry
Entry Title: Masqaṭ
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- Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, Mario Kozah, and Thomas A. Carlson, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
- Thomas A. Carlson, entry contributor, “Masqaṭ”
Additional Credit:
- Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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