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An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:

An Excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:

“Afterwards I went to Shurghan and spent the night in a village in Faryab. From there I went via Samangan and Talaqan to Marw Rud and thence to Marw. Taking leave from my job, I announced that I was setting out for the pilgrimage to Mecca. I settled what debts I had and renounced everything worldly, except for a few necessities.” 

Source: Thackston, W. Wheeler McIntosh, ed. trans., Nasir-i Khusraw’s Book of Travels (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2010), 2.

An Excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw

“On the first of Dhu’l-Qa’da I left Egypt and we reached the Red Sea on the eighth. From there we travelled for fifteen days by boat until we arrived at the town called Jar. It was the twenty-second of the month. From there we reached Medina in four days.

An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:

“To reach the town of Lahsa from any direction, you have to cross vast expanses of desert. The nearest Muslim city to Lahsa that has a ruler is Basrah, and that is one hundred and fifty leagues away. There has never been a ruler of Basrah, however, who has attempted an attack on Lahsa.

An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:

An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:

An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:

“On Friday the twenty-fifth of Jumada II [December 27, 1046], or the twenty second of-Day, old reckoning, we arrived in Harran. The weather at that time was like the weather in Khurasan at Nawroz [beginning of spring]. From there we went to a town named Qarul, where a young man invited us into his home. When we had come into the house, a Bedouin Arab sixty years old came in and sat down next to me.

An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:

An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw: 

“On Friday the eighth of Dhul-Qada (May 17, 1046 CE) I went to Damghan. On the 1st of Dhul-Hijjah 437 AH (June 9, 1046 CE) I came to Simnan by way of Abkhawari and Chashtkhwaran …” 

Source: Thackston, W. Wheeler McIntosh, ed. trans., Nasir- i Khusraw’s Book of Travels (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2010), 3.

An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:

“On the second of Dhul-Qada [May 11, 1046 CE] I left Nishapur and in the company of Khwaja Muwaffaq, the Sultan’s agent, came to Qumis via Givan. There I paid a visit to the tomb of Shaykh Bayazid at Bistam.” 

Source: Thackston, W. Wheeler McIntosh, ed. trans., Nasir-i Khusraw’s Book of Travels (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2010), 3.