Fars
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“A region in southwestern
Iran, often identified as the heartland of
the Iranian people.” 1
Place Type
region
Location
- Coordinates
(representative):
- Lat. 30.5° Long. 51.5°4
Descriptions
“فان قلنا الشرق اردنا ايضا فارس وكرمان
والسند” 9
“وهذه الروضة ظهرت لها كرامات ثبت بها عندهم أن بها قبر عليّ رضي الله عنه، فمنها أن في ليلة السابع والعشرين من رجب، وتسمى عندهم ليلة المحيا يؤتى الى تلك الروضة بكل مقعد من العراقين وخرسان وبلاد فارس والروم فيجتمع الثلاثون والأربعون ونحو ذلك” 7
Attestations
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Works Cited
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- 1 J. T. Walker, "209. Fars," The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 163-164.
- 2 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 73, 163–164, 216, 411, 441, map: Map II D3.
- 3 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 17, 344.
- 4 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922698," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: IV, pp: 256.
- 6 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 237.
- 7 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 200, 215, 219, 223, 281, 286, 335, 346, 412, 468, 571, 573, 575, 189.
- 9 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 7.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Fars.” 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/84.About this Entry
Entry Title: Fars
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- 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
- Thomas A. Carlson and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Fars”
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
- 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
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- al-Ya`qubi data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- al-Ya`qubi data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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