Parwan
فروان
A town with markets, trade and wealthy people, well built, linked to India by a pass; a gateway for merchants entering India. 1
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Parwan is a city with markets, trade and wealthy people, and its construction is fine. Al-Idrisi mentions that it is connected to India through a pass, and that it is a gateway for merchants entering India. 1
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 485
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islam.museum contributors. “Parwan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/parwan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.