Ṭukhāristān - طخارستان
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[ “T]he name found in earlier mediaeval Islamic sources for the region along the southern banks of the middle and upper Oxus river, in the wider sense of the term (see below), with the ancient of the Balk̲h̲ as the centre of its western part and such towns as Ṭālaḳān, Andarāb and Walwālīd̲j̲ [q.vv.] as its centres in the narrower acceptation of the term, sc. the eastern part.” 3
Place Type
region
Descriptions
“وربما كان للمصراو للقصبة نواح لها مدن مثل طخارستان لبلخ والبطائح لواسط والزاب لافريقية” 2
“وصورت خراسان وما في ضمنها من طخيرستان وجبال الباميان وطوس وقوهستان بجميع مياههم الجارية وجبالهم المشهورة ورمالها وطرقها المعروفة” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 9.
- 2 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 47.
- 3 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
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