عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
ALei537
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
al-Fayyūm - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Sijpesteijn, Petra M.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
(1,084 words)
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Al-Fayyūm is an oasis and administrative district in Egypt's Libyan Desert, about 90 kilometres southwest of modern-day Cairo. Only the lowest part of the approximately 12,000-square-kilometre depression in which the district is located is cultivatable, about one sixth of the total area. A shallow lake, Birkat al-Qārūn, is located in the northwest, from which al-Fayyūm takes its name ( phiom , "lake," in Bohairic Coptic). The largest part of the district by far is desert. The Baḥr Yūsuf, an offshoot of the Nile, which
SET
Title
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
International Standard Serial Number
9789004356665
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Islam.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Sijpesteijn, Petra M.
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Article]
275578
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