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" Maʿbar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Shokoohy, Mehrdad
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English
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1062661
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ALei3058
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Shokoohy, Mehrdad
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Shokoohy, Natalie H.
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Maʿbar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Shokoohy, Mehrdad
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(3,437 words)
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Ma ʿ bar (Mabar) is the name given by the Muslims to the Coromandel Coast, in Tamil Nadu, India, from at least the sixth/twelfth century, appearing in Muslim chronicles, along with the name of its capital city, Madura, from the beginning of the seventh/thirteenth. The high official, historian, and physician of Īlkhānid Iran Rashīd al-Dīn (c. 645–718/1247–1318) mentions Maʿbar as “the key to India,” with a distance of 300 parasangs (about 1,680 kilometres) from the Malabar port of Kaulam (Quilon or Kollam) to
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Islam.
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