Bosworth, C. E.. “Zamakhshar.” In The Encyclopaedia of Islam, edited by P. J. Bearman et al., 2nd ed., 11:432. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
A small town of medieval Khwarezm, Zamakhshar is evoked through its (often elusive) depictions by, respectively, al-Muqaddasi, al-Sam‘ani and Ibn Battuta. Described by the second as “a large village like a small town,” it fades from recorded history after the fourteenth century. The author recalls Barthold’s opinion that the modern ruins of Zmukhshir mark the site of medieval Zamakhshar.
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