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Nayin

نايين

A town of markets, trade and circulating wealth, built of mud, seventy-five miles from Aqda. 1

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Nayin is a city with markets, shops and money in circulation. Its buildings are of mud brick. According to al-Idrisi it lies seventy-five miles from Uqda. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 431
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.431
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islam.museum contributors. “Nayin”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/nayin/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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