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al-Yāmiyān - الياميان

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“[A] town in the Hindu-Kus̲h̲ north of the main range in a mountain valley lying 8,480 feet above sea level, through which one of the most important roads between the lands of the Oxus watershed and the Indus leads; the town is therefore naturally important as a commercial centre and was important in the middle ages as a fortress also.” 2

Names

  • الباميان1
  • الياميان1
  • al-Bāmiyān
  • al-Yāmiyān
  • Bamiyan
  • Bāmyān

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 34.75° Long. 67.25°3

Descriptions

“وعبر النهر، وهو نهر جيحون، إلى مدينة بلخ فتملكها، ثم إلى الياميان (الباميان) فتملّكها، وأوغل في بلاد خراسان وعراق العجم. فثار عليه المسلمون في بلخ، وفي ما وراء النهر. فكرّ عليهم، ودخل بلخ بالسيف، وتركها خاوية على عروشها. ثم فعل مثل ذلك في ترمذ، فخربت، ولم تعمر بعد، ولكنها بنيت مدينة على ميلين منها هي التي تسمى اليوم ترمذ. وقتل أهل الياميان (الباميان) وهدمها بأسرها إلا صومعة جامعها، وعفا عن أهل بخارى وسمرقند.” 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: 374.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Deutsches Archäologisches Institute, "http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2110999," iDAI.gazetteer

How to Cite This Entry

“al-Yāmiyān - الياميان ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5146.

Bibliography:

“al-Yāmiyān - الياميان .” 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/5146.

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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, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
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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

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