Atbash
اطباش
A town on a strong mountain, ten stages from Tibet, with crafts and markets; the road to Barsakhan leaves from it. 1
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Atbash: a city on an impregnable mountain, according to al-Idrisi. It lies ten stages from Tibet, and it has crafts and markets. From it one travels to Barsakhan. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 515
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.515
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islam.museum contributors. “Atbash”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/atbash/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.