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Sanf Island is an island near the coast, a few miles from Qumar, according to al-Idrisi. Sanf aloes-wood (al-oud al-sinfi) is found there, which in his view is better than ordinary aloes-wood. Cattle, coconuts, bananas, sugar cane and rice are also found there. The author mentions that its people do not kill the cattle, but leave them until they die and then eat them. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 83
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.83
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islam.museum contributors. “Sanf island”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sanf-island/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.