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Overview
Al-Ahwaz: a town known as Hormuz Shahr, and the capital of the land of Khuzistan. Al-Idrisi describes its site as spacious and its air as healthy. 1
Its people
Al-Idrisi says that it has abundant livelihoods and many good things, and that its people are wealthy and civilised Arabs. 1
Connections
People and things also explored
جلال الدولة أبو طاهر بن بهاء الدولة· قاضي القضاة ابن ما كولا الحسين بن علي العجلي· Musa ibn Bugha· صاحب الزنج· سلطان الدولة أبو شجاع بن بهاء الدولة· The sack of al-Ahwaz, 421· Conquest of al-Ahwaz, Manadhir and Nahr Tiri (16 AH)· The Zanj Enter Ahwaz
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 392
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Ahwaz”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/al-ahwaz/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.