'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎396v] (797/982)

SAIYID KATHIM,— vide QaJar!eh by which name it is now known.
SAIYTD MUHAMMAD (1)— Lat. 29° 38' N. Long. 51° 38' E. Elev.
A village among palms near the hills, 1| miles off the road to the left, going
from Kazarun, to Kamarij, Ears, about Smiles from the former.— {Trotter.)
SAIYID MUHAMMAD (2)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Northern ’Arabistan, 12 miles south-west of Dizful and to the
west of the river Diz. It contains 80 reed houses and 5 mud huts, inhabited
by A1 Kathir Arabs and a few Saiyids and Lurs. Crops are wheat, barley,
beans, millet and mash, irrigated by the Harmushi canal from the Karkheh.
There are 20 rifles. It is above the tract called Hiddeh and near the
ruined shrine of Buq’eh-i-Julbas.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
SAIYID MUHAMMAD KAFTAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of mountains in Fars, north of Riza-abad. One of the peaks, called
Kuh’Abbas ’Ali, is 11,700 feet above the sea. A splendid view is obtain
able hence to Yazdikhast north-west, Bavanat east, Ranj-i-Gambll ?
west, and Imamzadeh Isma’il south.— {Durand.)
SAIYID NAMEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place, 795£ miles from Dizful, on the road thence toMuham-
mareh by Shush.— {Rivadeneyra.)
SAIYID NASR-UD-DlN— Elev. 2,590'.
An Imdmzddeh situated in the Deh Bisheh district ot the Pusht-i-Kuh of
Luristan ; by it passes the road from Deh Bala to Dizful between Khush-
kadul and the Mama pass. The building consists ot a domed shrine and
minarets surrounded by low walls ; around are some hovels and many
graves, the whole standing on a long mound. Below is a grove of pomegra
nates, and around a circumscribed but well-cultivated valley, sunk below the
level of the Deh Bisheh plain ; abundant streams of water, mostly brackish,
irrigate the cultivated lands, and the valley remains green through the
greatest heat of summer.
Saiyid Nasr-ud-Din was sixth in descent from ’Ali, and his descendants
are now in charge of the shrine and number from 200 to 300 families. In
winter the head saint and his immediate retainers are the only inhabitants ;
the remainder migrate to the slopes abutting on to the Tigris plain.— {B.)
SAIYID RAMZAN— vide GUMAR.
SAIYID TAHIR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Northern ’Arabistan, lying 13 miles west-south-west of Dizful.
It is in the tract called Husainabad and near a shrine called Buq’eh-i-
’AH-bin-Musa-ar-Ridha. It contains 60 houses (10 or 12 of mud and the rest
huts) of mixed Arabs, among whom are a few Lurs and Kurds. The people
are cultivators and unwarlike, and own 6 rifles. Water is from the Kar
kheh by the Harmushi canal. Wheat, barley, millet and mash are cul
tivated, and there are 100 buffaloes.—( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)