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Sus (Khuzistan)

السوس (خوزستان)

A civilised city with every good thing, palms and much sugar cane made into sugar, and known for fruit and cloth. 1

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Persia & Central Asia
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Sus is a civilised city gathering every good thing. It has palms and much cane from which sugar is made. It is renowned for fruits and kinds of cloth, according to al-Idrisi. 2

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Site of
Conquest of al-Sus (17 AH)

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Abu Musa al-Ashari· Conquest of al-Sus (17 AH)

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 396
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.396
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Abu Musa al-Ashari

Companion from the Ashari tribe, a client of the family of Utba ibn Rabi'a; came to the Prophet on the two ships from Abyssinia. Known as a jurist, expert Qur'an reciter and governor of Basra and Kufa under Umar.