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Safru

صفروي

A small town where most people are farmers, with abundant crops and fresh water, two stages from Qal'at Mahdi. 1

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Safru is a sparsely populated city, most of whose people are farmers, according to al-Idrisi. He mentions that its crops are abundant, its waters sweet and plentiful, and that it lies two stages from Qal'at Mahdi. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 243
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.243
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islam.museum contributors. “Safru”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/safru/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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