Islamic city

Japanese: イスラム都市 - いすらむとし
Islamic city

...After the 7th century, the Muslims unified the Oriental world through great conquests, and inherited the heritage of these ancient cities to build their own urban civilization.
[The formation of Islamic cities]
Medieval Arab geographers defined a regional capital as a qaṣaba and other smaller cities as madina. However, in general, any city that is the economic and cultural center of a village, regardless of its size, is called madina or miṣr in the Arab world, and shahr in Iran and Turkey.

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Islamic cities" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…7世紀以後,大征服によってオリエント世界を統一したイスラム教徒は,これら古代都市の遺産を継承して独自の都市文明を築き上げてゆく。
[イスラム都市の形成]
 中世アラブの地理学者は,一地方の中心都市をカサバqaṣaba,それ以外の中小都市をマディーナmad‐īnaと定義する。しかし一般には規模の大小にかかわりなく,むらに対して経済・文化のかなめとなる都市を,アラブ世界ではマディーナあるいはミスルmiṣrといい,イランやトルコではシャフルshahrと呼ぶ。…

※「イスラム都市」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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