al-Ṣāliḥiyya (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/842

A city in the Nile Delta in Egypt.

Names

  • Arabic: الصالحية = al-Ṣāliḥiyya 1
  • Persian: صالحیه = Ṣāliḥiyya 2

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 2 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:231 [Arabic].
    • al-Ṣāliḥīya: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 71 [English].
  • 2Salihiyya: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 51 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Mary Papadopoulos, and Evan Willford, “al-Ṣāliḥiyya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/842.

Additional credit information:

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