bāʾin

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A type of stone well in India in which you go down by stairs

Names

  • Arabic: بائن = bāʾin 1
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Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997

Sources

  • 1Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 4:12-13 [Arabic].
    • bāʾin: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), IV, 778-9 [English].

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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