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Surra man Raʾā - سر من رأى

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“[A] town on the east bank of the middle Tigris in ʿIrāḳ, 125 km north of Bag̲h̲dād, of about 35 ha in 1924, and ca. 120 ha in the 1970s. Between 221/836 and 279/892 it was the capital of the ʿAbbāsid caliphs, and expanded to an occupied area of 57 km2, one of the largest cities of ancient times, whose remains of collapsed pisé and brick walls are still largely visible.” 3

Names

  • سامراء
  • سامّرا
  • سر من رأى1
  • سرّ من رأي
  • سرّ من رأي (سامّرا)2
  • Sāmarrā
  • Sāmarrāʾ
  • Surra man Raʾā
  • Surra man raʾy

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 34.19663° Long. 43.8739°4

Descriptions

“ثم رحلنا فنزلنا موضعا على شطّ دجلة بالقرب من حصن يسمّى المعشوق، وهو مبني على الدجلة. وفي الجهة الشرقيّة من هذا الحصن مدينة سرّ من رأى وتسمى أيضا سامرّا. ويقال لها سام راه، ومعناه بالفارسيّة طريق سام وراه هو الطريق” 2
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 232.
  • 2 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 243.
  • 3 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 4 Deutsches Archäologisches Institute, "http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2283182," iDAI.gazetteer

How to Cite This Entry

“Surra man Raʾā - سر من رأى ” last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5480.

Bibliography:

“Surra man Raʾā - سر من رأى .”, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, Mario Kozah and Thomas A. Carlson. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5480.

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Entry Title: Surra man Raʾā - سر من رأى

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, Mario Kozah, and Thomas A. Carlson, editors,
  • , entry contributor, “Surra man Raʾā - سر من رأى ”

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
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine

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