Shiraz - شيراز

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A city of Fārs located east of the gulf.

Names

  • شيراز1
  • Shiraz
  • Shīrāz

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 29.564303° Long. 52.617971°3

Descriptions

ومثل قولنا في شيراز لا مقدار لاهل الطيالسة بها وذلك انه لباس الشريف والوضيع والعالم والجاهل1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 7.
  • 2 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 22, 213, 124, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 225, 226, 227, 240, 293, 304, 383, 465, 467, 662.
  • 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922706," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

Tobias Scheunchen, “Shiraz - شيراز ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5467.

Bibliography:

Tobias Scheunchen, “Shiraz - شيراز .” 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/5467.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Shiraz - شيراز

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
  • Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributor, “Shiraz - شيراز

Additional Credit:

  • Research on coordinates 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
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • 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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