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Rashid

رشيد

A civilised town on the Nile with farms, wheat and barley, fine vegetables and fresh fruit, and much Nile fish, including the dulays fish carried to other regions; sixty miles from Alexandria. 1

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Rashid is a civilised city on the Nile, according to al-Idrisi. It has farms and crops of wheat and barley, fine vegetables and fresh fruits. Much Nile fish is caught there, including al-Dulays, and it is carried to the surrounding regions. It lies sixty miles from Alexandria. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 343
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.343
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