Sarkhas
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Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 36.5449° Long. 61.1577°4
Descriptions
“ثم سافرنا الى مدينة سرخس، وإليها ينسب الشيخ الصالح لقمان السرخسي رضي الله عنه.” 6
“ثم غزاهم طغيتمور بنفسه في خمسين ألفاً من التجر فهزموه، وملكوا البلاد، وتغلبوا على سرخس والزاوة وطوس، وهي من أعظم بلاد خراسان.” 5
“ورأيت شيخا بسرخس قد فصل الاشكال وصور بلد الكفر والاسلام كله
خطأ الا القليل وقلت له هل سافرت قال ما جاوزت سرخس” 2
Attestation
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"Sarakhs" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 287.
- 2 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 6.
- 3 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 390, 394.
- 4 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://www.geonames.org/1159716/sarakhs.html," GeoNames
- 5 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 390.
- 6 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 394.
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Sarkhas” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/3001.
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Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Sarkhas.” 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/3001.About this Entry
Entry Title: Sarkhas
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- Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
- 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 and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Sarkhas”
Additional Credit:
- Research on coordinates 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
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- al-Yaʿqūbī data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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