Buwsir
بوصير
A small town north of the Nile. The author reports that many of Pharaoh's magicians were said to come from it, and that remnants of students of magic remained there 1.
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Buwsir: a small city on the north bank of the Nile, according to al-Idrisi. It is told that most of the sorcerers of Pharaoh were from it, and the author reports that a remnant of students of magic still remains in it. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 124
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.124
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