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Region: Egypt & Nile
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Asyut: a city in Upper Egypt on the west bank of the Nile, about three miles from it. Palm gardens surround it, and its wall is old. Ibn Jubayr mentions it on his way upstream to Qus. ¹

An additional source is needed: the page number in the data refers to the scanned copy, not the edition.

Sources

The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907)

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islam.museum contributors. “أسيوط”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/asyut/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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