Qīnyū
قينيو
A large, densely built city at the foot of a high mountain; the author gives one hundred miles from Nūshā 1.
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Qaynyu is a large city at the foot of a high mountain, densely built. Al-Idrisi mentions that it lies a hundred miles from Nushi. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 916
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.916
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islam.museum contributors. “Qīnyū”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/qaynyu/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.