ʿIrāq al-ʿAjam - عراق العجم
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“ʿIrāḳ ʿAd̲j̲amī indicated, from the late medieval period onwards, Iranian Media (which the ancient geographers had called al-Ḏj̲ibāl ), to distinguish it from ʿIrāḳ ʿArabī , which is ʿIrāḳ proper.” 2
Names
- عراق العجم1
- ʿIrāq al-ʿAjam
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- 1 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 94, 190, 202, 210.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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