Shāṭiʾ ʿUthmān (quarter)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/8881

A neighborhood in al-Basra along the river

Names

Arabic: شاطئ عثمان = Shāṭiʾ ʿUthmān 1
Persian: شاطی عثمان = Shāṭī ʿUthmān 2

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 2	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 310 [Arabic].
2Shati Uthman: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 120 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Mary Papadopoulos, “Shāṭiʾ ʿUthmān” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/8881.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; 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

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