Sehwan

Region: South Asia · Coordinates: 26.425, 67.861 · 4 events

Events

YearSourceAccount
AD 1333Ibn Battuta, TravelsHe enters Sehwan in the height of summer; the party went about naked, wrapped in wet cloth. He sees the letter of appointment of Caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, kept by a family of preachers
AD 1333Ibn Battuta, TravelsHindu Ratan, minister of Sind, is killed by discontented emirs, who seize twelve lakhs from the Delhi treasury and raise Unar as king. Sertiz of Multan comes to suppress them and besieges Sehwan, forcing its surrender after forty days; then, breaking his promise, he executes and beheads them
AD 1333Ibn Battuta, TravelsAfter the battle he stays in the great school of Sehwan, but while sleeping on the roof he sees hanging from the walls stuffed hides and heaps of heads, cannot sleep, and leaves
AD 1341Ibn Battuta, TravelsHearing that the sultan is in Sehwan province, he goes there dressed as a monk; he declines the call to return to office and asks to travel to Hijaz, which is allowed. He enters the monastery named after King Bashir (late February, 742 AH)
Show on the map — open Ibn Battuta, Travels