Isfījāb - اسفيجاب
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“[A] town and an extensive district of mediaeval Islamic Central Asia, identifiable with the later Islamic town of Sayram. Popular etymologising saw in the name the Persian component sipīd , ispīd "white". It lay on the Aris river, a right-bank affluent of the Si̊r Daryā [q.v.], 14 km/8 miles to the east of the later town of Chimkent (lat. 42° 16′ N., long. 69° 05′ E.).” 2
Names
- أسبيجاب1
- اسفيجاب
- Asbījāb
- Isfījāb
Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“ثم صورت نهر جيحون وما وراء من اعمال بخارا وسمرقند وأشروسنة وأسبيجاب والشاش وخوارزم الى جميع ما تشتمل عليه من المياه وتحيط به من الطرق والمسالك” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 9.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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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 Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
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