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Sandi Fulat

صندى فولات

A large island with fresh water, crops and rice, ruled by a king named Zanbad, whose people wear cloth wraps. Rugged mountains on its China side make it one of the gates to China. Ten days from the island of Sanf 1.

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Sandi Fulat is a great island with fresh water, crops and rice, according to al-Idrisi. It is ruled by a king called Zanbad, and its people wear loincloths (futa). Rugged mountains surround it on the side of China, and the author considers it a gate of China. It lies ten days from Sanf Island. 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. 89
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.89
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islam.museum contributors. “Sandi Fulat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sandi-fulat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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