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Layla bt. Mas‘ud Nahshali

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The daughter of Mas'ud Nahshali and a wife of ‘Ali b. Abi Talib.

Names

  • Persian: ليلى = Laylā 1

Attributes

  • Female

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Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw1 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Layla bt. Mas‘ud Nahshali: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 118 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Mary Papadopoulos, “Layla bt. Mas‘ud Nahshali” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/15148.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: abstract and gender assignment, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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