Shiyakha

A shiyakha[1][a] (Arabic: شياخة, romanized: šiyāḵa, lit. 'sheikhdom, jurisdiction of a sheikh')[4] is the Arabic language term for a fourth-layer subdivision of Egypt.

Notes

  1. ^ Also spelled shiyakhah[2] or sheyakha(h).[3]

References

  1. ^ Horwood 2011, p. 164.
  2. ^ Lowry, Joseph Edmund; Stewart, Devin J. (2009-01-01). Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1350-1850. Isd. ISBN 9783447059336.
  3. ^ Natalija Gelvanovska; Michel Rogy; Carlo Maria Rossotto (11 February 2014). Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa: Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access. World Bank Publications. pp. 33–. ISBN 978-1-4648-0113-6.
  4. ^ Wehr, Hans (1979), “شياخة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, page 580

Sources

  • Horwood, Chris (2011). Cairo.
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