Sea of Harkand
بحر هركند
The sea on which the famous islands with large wooden ships lie. The author describes a large, well-known island in it that has a mountain on which, he reports, Adam descended 1.
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The Sea of Harkand is the sea in which lie the islands famous for the great ships carved from wood. Al-Idrisi says that the great island in it is well known, and that it has a mountain on which Adam is said to have landed. The author reports this. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 72-73
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.72-73
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