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Suways

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Two towns that stood at Qulzum, now mostly in ruins; al-Idrisi says their people drank from the Suways spring, a brackish spring hard to drink. 1

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Suways are two cities which were on the Red Sea, most of them now in ruin. Al-Idrisi mentions that their people used to drink from the spring of Suways, a brackish spring which the drinker cannot swallow. 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. 348
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.348
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islam.museum contributors. “Suways”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/suways/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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