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Shatiba (Xàtiva)

شاطبة

A town whose beauty and strength are proverbial, where fine paper is made and shipped to East and West; thirty-two miles from Valencia. 1

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Shatiba is a city whose beauty and strength are proverbial, according to al-Idrisi. Good paper is made there, which reaches East and West, and it lies thirty-two miles from Valencia. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 556
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.556
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islam.museum contributors. “Shatiba (Xàtiva)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/shatiba/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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