Bahr al-Na‘am (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/19067

A place in Upper Egypt on the Red Sea coast.

Names

  • Persian: بحر النعام = Baḥr al-Naʿām 1

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Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 1 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Bahr al-Na‘am: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 86 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Mary Papadopoulos, “Bahr al-Na‘am” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/19067.

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