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Awal Island

جزيرة أوال

A fine island with a large town, palms, fields and many springs, among them Ayn Bu Zaydan and Ayn Ghadhar. It has its own ruler, and the heads of the pearl divers gather there from every land. 1

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Awal is a fine island with a large town, palms and farmland, and many springs, among them the spring of Bu Zaydan and the spring of Ghadhar. 2

Al-Idrisi says that it has an independent amir of its own, and that the chiefs of the divers come to it for pearls from every region. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 387
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.387
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