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" Burṭās - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Golden, Peter B.
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English
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1061171
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ALei1568
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Golden, Peter B.
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Burṭās - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Golden, Peter B.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,671 words)
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The Burṭās were a people, or more probably a confederation of peoples and a territory or country, noted by Muslim geographers of the fourth/tenth-century (Ibn Ḥawqal, 333–4) and later in a number of contradictory notices probably reflecting different eras of their history. Their name appears as Burṭās (as in, for example, al-Masʿūdī, al-Tanbīh , 62, al-Iṣṭakhrī, 227); Burdās, in the Jayhānī tradition (works based on the now lost Kitâb al-Masâlik wa’l-Mamâlik by the 10 th century Sâmânid servitor, Abu ‘Abdallâh Muḥammad b.
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Islam.
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ALei1568.pdf
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