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DESCRIPTION OF THE PROVINCE OF FARS
IN PERSIA
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FOURTEENTH
CENTURY A.D.
FROM THE MS. OF IBN AL-BALKHI IN THE
BRITISH MUSEUM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGES
TITLE
CHAPTER I
Introduction — Ḥamd-Allah and Ibn-al-Bal
kh
ī — The Historical Section of the
Fārs Nāmah
— Buyids and Saljūqs — The five
Sh
abānkārah Tribes — The five Kurdish Ramms — The Chief Justices of Fārs — The Geographical Section — The Province of Fārs and its five Kūrahs — Māh Kūfah and Māh Baṣrah& — The Iṣṭa
kh
r District — Persepolis — The Three Castles — The Palace of Jam
sh
īd — The Marvda
sh
t Plain
1–30
CHAPTER II
The Dārābjird District — Bitumen Springs — Pharaoh’s Cup — Jahram Blankets — Juwaym Muslin — The Arda
sh
īr
Kh
ūrah District —
Sh
īrāz — The Gird Fanā
Kh
usrū Suburb — The Castle of Pahan-Diz — Sīrāf and the Amīrs of Qays Island — Fīrūzābād and the Engineer Burāzah — His Tunnel The Palms of Irāhistān — The
Sh
āpūr
Kh
ūrah District — Bi
sh
āvūr City — The Millstones of
Kh
ullār — Kāzirūn and its Cloths — The Vale of
Sh
a‘b Bavvān
31–59
CHAPTER III
The Qubād
Kh
ūrah District — Arrajān — The Thakān Bridge — The Habits of Rī
sh
ahr Folk — Stinking Jannābā — The Port of Mahrūbān — The Rivers of Fārs — Seas and Lakes — The Meadow-lands — The Castles — The Itineraries — The Revenues of Fārs
61–85
INDEX
86–92
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