Sanf island
جزيرة صنف
An island near the coast a few miles from Qumar, where the best kind of oud is found. It has cattle, coconuts, bananas, cane and rice. Its people eat cattle only when they die naturally and do not kill them 1.
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Sanf Island is an island near the coast, a few miles from Qumar, according to al-Idrisi. Sanf aloes-wood (al-oud al-sinfi) is found there, which in his view is better than ordinary aloes-wood. Cattle, coconuts, bananas, sugar cane and rice are also found there. The author mentions that its people do not kill the cattle, but leave them until they die and then eat them. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 83
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.83
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islam.museum contributors. “Sanf island”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sanf-island/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.