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'The lands of the Eastern Caliphate Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur' [‎313] (352/586)

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XXII]
KIRMAN.
313
mosque standing in the market-place, and gardens extending all
round the habitations. At one-third of the way from Rayin to
Bam stood the neighbouring towns of Avarik and Mihrkird (or
Mihrijird), of which the former still exists, the name being now
pronounced Abarik. Between the two, in the 4th (10th) century,
stood a castle built by the Buyid governor, Ibn Ilyas. The water-
supply was from a river, and the houses were clay-built. Between
Abarik and Bam stands Daharzin, which Mukaddasi writes
Damn, other spellings being Darjin and Daynlzin. It had a
fine Friday Mosque, and was a pleasant place, surrounded by
gardens irrigated from a neighbouring stream 1 .
The Narmasir district (in Persian Narmashir) lay south-east of
Bam and on the desert border; its capital, the city of Narmasir,
stood half-way between Bam and Fahraj. Fahraj still exists and
in the 4th (10th) century, Narmasir was an important town;
Mukaddasi speaks of its many fine palaces, and of its numerous
population. Merchants from Khurasan trading with 'Oman lived
here, for Narmasir stood on the Pilgrim road from Sistan to
Mecca and was a mart for Indian goods. Narmasir was then
smaller than Sirjan, but fortified, and it had four gates, Bab
Bam, Bab Stirkan, the Gate of the Oratory (Musalla), and lastly
the Gate of the Kiosque (Ktishk). The Friday Mosque was
in the midst of the markets. To its gate was an ascent of ten
steps of burnt-brick stairway, and a fine minaret, famous in all the
country round, towered above. The castle was known as the
KaPah Kfish-va-Ran (the name unexplained), and at the Bam
gate were three forts called Al-Akhwat, £ the Sisters/ Palm-groves
and gardens surrounded the town. At the present day no town
of Narmasir appears on the map, but the ruins at the site called
Chugukabad, ' Sparrow-town,' lying on the right bank of the
sluggish river which winds through the Narmasir plain, must be
the remains of the great medieval city. The place is now a
complete wilderness, though as late as the 8th (14th) century
Mustawfi still refers to Narmasir as a populous city.
Twenty miles due south of Fahraj is Rikan (also spelt Rikan
or Righan), the fortifications of which Mukaddasi describes. The
1 I. H. 223, 224. Muk. 465, 466, 470. Mst. 182. Yak. iv. 700. Abarik
and Darzm are described by Major Sykes [Persia, p. 214).

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The lands of the Eastern Caliphate Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur

Publication Details: Cambridge : University Press, 1905.

Notes: Cambridge Geographical Series.

Physical Description: xvii, 536 p., 10 maps (folded).

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