Sunday, February 9, 2025

Saul in Suhraward

Ibn Hawqal, a geographer from the tenth century, offers a rare literary creation concerning the Kurdish town of Suhraward. According to this mythical account, Saul, the biblical figure, was from Suhraward:

Shahrazur is a small town, which the Kurds have seized on; also the town Suhraward are in the hands of the Kurds. 

Suhraward is a place of which the inhabitants are mostly Kurds and notorious robbers and plunderers. Saul the king of the Children of Israel, was of this place.

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