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Raqwān

رقوان

The only city of the Sīsiyān lands that the author says had been rebuilt amid the ruins 1.

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Raqwan is the one city in the lands of Sisayan that was settled after ruin, as al-Idrisi mentions. It borders on the foul land. 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. 930
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.930
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islam.museum contributors. “Raqwān”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/raqwan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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