Iqrāqū
إقراقو
A fine city with many houses in the land of Bulūniya, surrounded by barrier mountains that separate it from the land of the Rus; the river Shant flows there 1.
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Iqraqu is a fine, populous town, one of the towns of the land of Balunya. Al-Idrisi says that mountains surround it and separate it from the lands of the Rus, and that in it is the river Shant. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 889
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.889
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islam.museum contributors. “Iqrāqū”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/iqraqu/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.