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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:
“...we came to a village called Haifa. Along the village road is much sand of the type used by Persian goldsmiths, which they call Meccan. The village of Haifa is on the coast and has many palm groves and orchards. The shipbuilders there make large seagoing vessels they call Judi...”
Source: Thackston, W. Wheeler McIntosh, ed. trans., Nasir- i Khusraw’s Book of Travels (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2010), 24–25.
An excerpt from the Safar-nama of Nasir Khusraw:
“The town of ‘Aydhab is situated by the sea and has a Friday mosque and a population of some five hundred. It belongs to the Sultan of Egypt and is a customs station for ships coming from Abyssinia, Zanzibar, and the Yemen. From there goods are transported by camel across the desert, the same way we travelled here, to Aswan and thence by boat to Cairo.
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:
