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Art. I.—Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād, written about the year 900 a.d. by Ibn Serapion. The Arabic Text edited from a MS. in the British Museum Library, with Translation and Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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Now six leagues after the Nahr Kūthā has been led off from the Euphrates, this last divides into two branches. Of these the (true) Euphrates passes on down to (the town called) Ḳanṭara-al-Kūfa, then it runs past the city of Al-Kūfa, where there is a Bridge-of-Boats over it. And after this it flows into the Swamps.
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page 259 note * Dual form of Jāmí, a Congregational-Mosque for the Friday Prayers.
page 262 note * Conjectural reading, MS. Fāfas or Fāḳas.
page 262 note † Conjectural emendations.
page 265 note * The MS. reads “eastern” in error.
page 265 note † Conjectural emendation, MS. Ṭayrān.
page 278 note * For this next line of text Al-Khatib has the following: “And some of its (waters) pass to the Bāb Sūk al Ghanam (the Gate of the Sheep-Market), and thence to the Trench of Al ‘Abbās.’
page 279 note * The reading of this name is uncertain. Al-Khaṭīb gives Mūshajīr.
page 279 note † Ms. reads Al-Khāliṣ, in error.
page 280 note * Ms. reads Nahr-al-Faḍl, in error.
page 287 note * Heading of MS. doubtful.
page 287 note † In the MS. this name may be read Al-Jazzārīn, “the Butchers.”
page 297 note * Reading uncertain.
page 303 note * MS. reads Nahr-al-Ubulla, in error.
page 307 note * MS. Al-Minār, in error.
page 307 note † The MS. reads Al-Mubārik, probably a mistake.
page 308 note * See next section.
page 311 note * This is the paragraph referred to in the last line of Section XVI. It is copied from folio 47a. of the MS.
page 314 note * What follows is almost a repetition of Section IV., and such points as offer any novelty have already been discussed in the Notes to that Section.