Orissa Island
جزيرة أوريسين
A large island off the Indian coast where elephants are hunted and their tusks traded. It has iron mines, rhubarb grows in its hills, and al-Idrisi describes a poisonous tree there called al-Shahkir. 1
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Orissin Island is a large island on the coast of India. Al-Idrisi mentions that elephants are hunted there and their tusks are exported. He also mentions that it has iron ore, and that rhubarb (rawand) grows in its mountains. He describes a poisonous tree there called al-Shahkir. 1
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 199
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islam.museum contributors. “Orissa Island”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/orissa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.