al-Ahwaz
الأهواز
A city known as Hormuz-Shahr, the capital of Khuzistan, on a broad site with healthy air, abundant food and plenty; its people are wealthy and civilised. 1
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Al-Ahwaz: a town known as Hormuz Shahr, and the capital of the land of Khuzistan. Al-Idrisi describes its site as spacious and its air as healthy. 1
Its people
Al-Idrisi says that it has abundant livelihoods and many good things, and that its people are wealthy and civilised Arabs. 1
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 392
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