Ṣuḥār - صحار

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A town situated in the middle of the flat and sandy bay which is found on the coast of Arabia between Masḳaṭ in the south-east and the peninsula of Musandam in the north-east.2

Names

  • صحار1
  • Sohar
  • Ṣuḥār

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 24.377793° Long. 56.731518°3

Descriptions

ومن مدن عمان مدينة زكي لم أدخلها، وهي على ما ذكر لي، مدينة عظيمة منها القريات وشبا وكلبا وخورفكان وصحار، وكلها ذات أنهار وحدائق وأشجار ونخل، وأكثر هذه البلاد في عمالة هرمز.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: 280.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29766," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

Ṣuḥār - صحار ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5477.

Bibliography:

Ṣuḥār - صحار .” 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/5477.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Ṣuḥār - صحار

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, “Ṣuḥār - صحار

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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