Sarkhas

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A city of Khurasan between Naysābūr and Merv.

Names

  • سرخس1, 2, 3
  • Sarakhs
  • Sarkhas

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • 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 سرخس2

Attestation

Attestation of name سرخس in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī.

سرخس1, 2, 3 1
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Works 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.

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.

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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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