Shirwin Mountains
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The Shirwin mountains of Tabaristan — its most impregnable and hardest, thickest in jungle and thicket — conquered by Muhammad ibn Musa and Mazyar ibn Qarin under al-Ma'mun.
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The mountains of Shirwin are in Tabaristan. In al-Baladhuri's description they are the most secure and the hardest of its mountains, and the richest in thickets and forests. Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Hafs ibn Umar ibn al-Ala' and Mazyar ibn Qarin conquered them in the caliphate of al-Ma'mun. 1 See also Tabaristan.
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Shirwin Mountains”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/shirwin/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.