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Khur

خور

A town also built of mud, with no fort or citadel, many orchards, two days from Qayn. 1

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Khur is a town built of mud, with no fortress and no citadel, and its gardens are many. It lies two days from Qayn, according to al-Idrisi. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 463
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.463
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islam.museum contributors. “Khur”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/khur/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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