Khuzistan

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A region east of the southern Tigris and north of the gulf.

Names

  • الأَهْوَاز2, 6
  • الاهواز3
  • خوزستان4
  • خُوْزستان2, 6
  • Khuzestan
  • Khuzistan1
  • Khūzistān

Place Type

region

Location

  • Coordinates (representative):
    • Lat. 32.5° Long. 48.5°5

Descriptions

السوس كورة باقصى المغرب ومدينة باوله واخرى بهيطل وكورة بخوزستان وبالمغرب سوسة ايضا4

Attestations

Attestation of name الاهواز in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī.

الاهواز3 3

Attestation of names الأَهْوَاز and خُوْزستان in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.

الأَهْوَاز2, 6 خُوْزستان2, 6 2, 6
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Works Cited

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  • 1 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Khuzistan.
  • 2 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: I, pp: 338.
  • 3 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 237.
  • 4 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 24.
  • 5 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912843," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: II, pp: 462.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Khuzistan” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/929.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Khuzistan.” 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/929.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Khuzistan

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
  • Thomas A. Carlson and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Khuzistan

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
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
  • Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
  • 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
  • al-Yaʿqūbī data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson

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