Around this time, ʿAskar Mukram (Arabic: عسکر مکرم, whose name means 'Mukram's encampment') was founded nearby, near the confluence of the canal Āb-i Gargar and the river Kārūn. Although the early history of the settlement is obscure (with the early accounts of al-Balādhurī and al-Ṭabarī conflicting), the tenth-century Ḥudūd al-ʿālam describes the town as large and prosperous, lying on both sides of the Āb-i Gargar. A Būyid mint was based there at the same time.