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" al-Fayyūm - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Sijpesteijn, Petra M.
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English
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1060140
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ALei537
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Sijpesteijn, Petra M.
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al-Fayyūm - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Sijpesteijn, Petra M.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,084 words)
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Al-Fayyūm is an oasis and administrative district in Egypt’s Libyan Desert, about 90 kilometres southwest of modern-day Cairo. Only the lowest part of the approximately 12,000-square-kilometre depression in which the district is located is cultivatable, about one sixth of the total area. A shallow lake, Birkat al-Qārūn, is located in the northwest, from which al-Fayyūm takes its name ( phiom , “lake,” in Bohairic Coptic). The largest part of the district by far is desert. The Baḥr Yūsuf, an offshoot of the Nile, which
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Islam.
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ALei537.pdf
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