Bikand

بيكند

A town one stage from Firab, with a strong wall and a congregational mosque, on the road to Bukhara. 1

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Bikand: a city one stage from Farbar. It has a strong wall and a congregational mosque, and it lies on the road to Bukhara. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 493
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.493
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islam.museum contributors. “Bikand”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/bikand/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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