Az-Zamakhshari

[p. 254]

AZ-ZAMAKHSHARĪ

(d. 538/1143 A.D.)

Abū-l-Qāsim Mahmud b. 'Umar az-Zainakhsharī, a geographer.

K. al-Jibāl wa-l-Amkinat wa-l-Miyāh (Lexicon Geographicum)

Ed.: K. Salverda de Grave, Leiden 1856.

T.: MC 797 A: 1

al-Bāḍiʾ, a place on the coast of the Sea of al-Yaman.

Bujāwa, a country (arḍ) belonging to the Nūba, where brisk camels (ibil furha) of the bujawiyya variety are found. (MC 797).