Sayda (Sidon)
صيداء
A city on the salt sea named after a woman of pre-Islamic times, cheap, ringed by orchards and trees, where a fish is cured for use. 1
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Sayda is a city on the shore of the salt sea, cheap in price and surrounded by gardens and trees, according to al-Idrisi. It is attributed to a woman who lived in the pre-Islamic era. A kind of salted fish is made there. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 371
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.371
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islam.museum contributors. “Sayda (Sidon)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sayda/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.