al-Suways - السويس
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“[A] seaport in Egypt, located at the northern end of the Red Sea (lat. 29° 59′ N., long. 32° 33′ E.). The town centre is situated closely south to the ancient town of Ḳulzum [...] which continued the Ptolemaic settlement of Κλυσμα or Κλειυσμα at the western shore of the bay of Suways and of which only a few ruins remain, known as Kūm al-Ḳulzum.” 2
Names
- السويس1
- al-Suways
- Suez
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 29.97371° Long. 32.52627°3
Descriptions
“يذكر أن سراج الدّين هذا أقام في خطة القضاء بالمدينة والخطابة بها نحو أربعين سنة، ثم إنه أراد الخروج بعد ذلك إلى مصر، فرأى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في النوم ثلاث مرات، في كلّ مرة ينهاه عن الخروج منها، وأخبره باقتراب أجله، فلم ينته عن ذلك، وخرج فمات بموضع يقال له: السويس، على مسيرة ثلاث من مصر، قبل أن يصل اليها، نعوذ بالله من سوء الخاتمة.” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 134.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://sws.geonames.org/359796," GeoNames
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“al-Suways - السويس .” 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/5136.About this Entry
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- 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
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