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al-Fusṭāṭ - الفسطاط

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A city situated to the south of the Nile delta.

Names

  • الفسطاط1
  • القاهرة
  • al-Fusṭāṭ
  • Babylon
  • Cairo
  • Fusṭāṭ

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 30.00543° Long. 31.229959°2

Descriptions

“فالامصار سمرقند ايرانشهر شهرستان اردبيل همذان الاهواز شيراز السيرجان المنصورة زبيد مكة بغداد الموصل دمشق الفسطاط القيروان قرطبة” 1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 47.
  • 2 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727082," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

Tobias Scheunchen, “al-Fusṭāṭ - الفسطاط ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5031.

Bibliography:

Tobias Scheunchen, “al-Fusṭāṭ - الفسطاط .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5031.

About this Entry

Entry Title: al-Fusṭāṭ - الفسطاط

Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:

  • Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
  • Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
  • Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributor, “al-Fusṭāṭ - الفسطاط ”

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
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
  • Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson

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