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Sāwa - ساوة

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“[A] town of northern Persia some 125 km/80 miles to the southwest of Tehran (lat. 35° 00′ N., long. 50° 22′ E., altitude 960 m/3,149 feet).” 2

Names

  • ساوة1
  • Sāwa

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 31.3129455° Long. 44.9935196°3

Descriptions

“وأهل البصرة على مذهب السنة والجماعة، ولا يخاف من يفعل مثل فعلي عندهم، ولو جرى مثل هذا بمشهد الحسين، أو بالحلة، أو بالبحرين، أو قم، أو قاشان، أو ساوة، أو آوه، أو طوس، لهلك فاعله، لأنهم رافضة غالىة.” 4
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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: 198.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Andrew Lookingbill and Ethan Russell (eds.), "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sawa+Lake/@31.3129455,44.9935196,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3fe1d5edc5e59e61:0x3f3e3c3e981d1a09!8m2!3d31.3142549!4d45.0069946," Google Maps
  • 4 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 198.

How to Cite This Entry

“Sāwa - ساوة ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5456.

Bibliography:

“Sāwa - ساوة .” 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/5456.

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Entry Title: Sāwa - ساوة

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
  • , entry contributor, “Sāwa - ساوة ”

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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