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Sakawand

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A town well peopled, seven days from Kabul, with snow in places and a cold climate. 1

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Sakawand is a city populous with its people, seven days from Bayt and from Kabul. Al-Idrisi mentions that snow falls in its land at certain times, and that it lies in the zone of the Surud, that is, the cold lands. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 469
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.469
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islam.museum contributors. “Sakawand”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sakawand/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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