Islamic Manuscripts : Ṣuwar al-aqālīm

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Islamic Manuscripts

<p style='text-align: justify;'> A Persian treatise on Geography. The work appears to have been translated from the Arabic original of which the authorship is uncertain. The date is indicated by two passages on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(26);return false;'>f. 11v</a> and <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(30);return false;'>13v</a>, where Spain is spoken of as "still in the hands of the Umayyads", and as ruled by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān III, Caliph of Cordova, 891-961, who reigned 912-961 and who adopted the title of caliph in 929 CE (317 AH). The mention of numerous fire-temples in Fars also points to an early date, for example on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(69);return false;'>f. 33r</a> : ذکر آتشکدهای فارس ، هیج ناحیتی و روستائی نیست که نه درو آتش گاهی هست آنچه بزرگترست و معروفتر ازآن یاد کنیم،. This copy of the manuscript is imperfect at the beginning and end. There are certainly some dislocations and some of the leaves at the end should be at the beginning. The regions are treated in the following order: Arabia on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(5);return false;'>f. 1r</a> and from <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(191);return false;'>f. 95</a> to <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(198);return false;'>97v</a>, The Maghrib and North West Spain on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(25);return false;'>f. 11r</a>, Egypt on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(33);return false;'>f. 15r</a>, Syria on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(37);return false;'>f. 17r</a>, Mesopotamia on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(41);return false;'>f. 19r</a>, Iraq on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(46);return false;'>f. 21v</a>, Khuzistan on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(55);return false;'>f. 26r</a>, The Mediterranean Sea on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(57);return false;'>27r</a>, Fars including an account of the fire temples on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(63);return false;'>f. 30r</a>, Khuzistan on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(83);return false;'>f. 40r</a>, Kurdistan on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(87);return false;'>f. 42r</a>, Transoxiana on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(123);return false;'>f. 60r</a>, Khwarizm on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(169);return false;'>f. 83r</a>.</p>