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" Jundīshāpūr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Fiori, Emiliano
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English
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1062375
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ALei2772
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Fiori, Emiliano
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Jundīshāpūr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Fiori, Emiliano
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,651 words)
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Jundīshāpūr (Gondēshāpūr, Jundaysābūr, from Middle Persian Weh-Andiok-Shabuhr, “Better is Shāpūr’s Antioch”) was a city in Khūzistān (ancient Elam), in today’s southwestern Iran. Its Syriac name, Bet Lapaṭ/Belapaṭ, according to archaeologist Daniel Potts, “derived, according to a folk etymology preserved by al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923), from that of its builder, Bel” (Potts, 421). The city was founded by the Sāsānian king Shāpūr I (r. 239–70 C.E.) after his first conquest of Antioch, in 256 C.E. (Shahbazi and Richter-Bernburg), and its name
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Islam.
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