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English: Map of the canals (nahrs) along the Blind Tigris (modern Shatt al-Arab) in southern Iraq in around 900 AD. The canals are as follows:

1. Nahr Abu al-Asad 2. Nahr al-Marah 3. Nahr al-Dayr 4. Nahr Bithq Shirin 5. Nahr Ma'qil 6. Nahr al-Ubulla 7. Nahr Abu al-Khasib 8. Nahr al-Amir 9. Nahr al-Qandil

Not depicted: the Nahr al-Yahudi, between the Nahr al-Ubulla and the Nahr Abu al-Khasib.

Background map is from Le Strange, Lands, Map II. The information on the canals comes from Le Strange, Ibn Serapion, pp. 297, 299-300, 303-307.

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  • Le Strange, Guy. "Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdad, written about the year 900 A.D. by Ibn Serapion." The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1895. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1895.
  • Le Strange, Guy. The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905.
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