(eds.), "Isfījāb - اسفيجاب " in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5317
  
    
      
        
          Isfījāb
          اسفيجاب
          Asbījāb
          أسبيجاب
          [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.).
          
            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
          
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            Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālikAbū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal
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          Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second EditionP. Bearman