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Jabay

جبى

A town densely built among palms and sugar cane, rich in produce, twelve miles from Basyan and fifteen from Sulaymanan. 1

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Jabay is a town with buildings closely packed among palms and sugar cane, and it has fertility and produce. It lies twelve miles from Basyan and fifteen miles from Sulaymanan, according to al-Idrisi. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 399
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.399
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islam.museum contributors. “Jabay”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/jabay/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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