, Luxor, the present site of ancient Thebes, the capital of the New Kingdom on the eastern bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt.
In the mediaeval Arabic geographical sources we find side-by-side the following renderings of the name of the city: (a) al-Aḳṣur "castles" (in the pluralis paucitatis as is explained by Yāḳūt, Muʿd̲j̲am , Beirut, i, 237a); the vocalisation with fatḥa is explicitly stated by Abu ’l-Fidāʾ, Taḳwīm , 110. (b) al-Uḳṣur, the colloquial equivalent to al-Aḳṣur with ḍamma , as given by al-Ḳalḳas̲h̲andī, Ṣubḥ , iii, 380, only a few decades after Abu ’l-Fidāʾ. (c) The …