Sahab island
جزيرة السحاب
An island named for the white cloud that hangs over it. A wind-driven column from the cloud meets the water and churns like a whirlwind, and rain falls with sea debris. Four days from the island of al-Muwajjah 1.
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Sahab Island is an island so named because a white cloud appears above it. From the cloud comes a tongue of wind that adheres to the water and whirls like a whirlwind, and then the cloud rains down with sea debris (qadha). It lies four days from the island of al-Mawjih, according to al-Idrisi. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 90
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.90
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