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An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:
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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:
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:
“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.
An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:
“I found Aleppo to be a nice city. It has a huge rampart, twenty-five cubits I estimated, and an enormous fortress: set on rock as large as the one at Balkh. The whole place is populous and the buildings are built one atop another. This city is a place where tolls are levied on merchants and traders who come and go amongst the lands of Syria, Anatolia, Diyarbekir, Egypt and Iraq.
An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:
An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:
The Great Seljuks (r. 429 - 590 AH / 1038 - 1194 CE) were a division of the Kiniq clan of Oghuz Turks, from the steppes north of the Aral Sea (lake in Central Asia). Initially, in the service of Qarakhanids of Transoxiana, they belonged to the leading tribe of the Oghuz Turks, and adopted Islam around 348 AH / 960 CE under their tribal leader named Seljuk.
