Nāʾīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Nāʾīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Bosworth, C. Edmund

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1063252
Doc. NO	:	ALei3649
Main Entry	:	Bosworth, C. Edmund
	:	Ruggles, D. Fairchild
Title & Author	:	Nāʾīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Bosworth, C. Edmund
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(596 words)
Abstract	:	Nāʾīn (Nāyin) is a small town (lat. N 32°52′ long. E 53°05′, elev. 1,408 metres) on the southwestern edge of the Great Desert of central Iran, on the road connecting Yazd with Isfahan and Qum. The town, known for its large citadel and its congregational mosque, seems to have had a pre-Islamic history, but nothing is known of it. The mediaeval Islamic geographers place it in the sardsīr (cooler upland regions) and describe it as located administratively within Fārs but as dependent on either Yazd or
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3649.pdf