Sāwas River (river)
URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/17643
Names
- Arabic: نهر ساوس = Nahr Sāwas 1
See Also
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before 843 CE | c. 820-843 CE | 687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE | 1993 |
Sources
- 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 431 [Arabic].
- Sawas River: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 442 [English].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Sāwas River” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17643.
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- Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
- Jessica Mutter: place categorization and categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan