Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition

, a town and district on the Makrān coast, formerly a dependency of the sultanate of ʿUmān and since 1378/1958 a territorial possession of Pākistān. The district of Gwādar extends for 40 miles along the shoreline of Gwādar West Bay, from Cape Pishkān to Gwādar Head, and some 14 miles inland. The town stands on a sandy isthmus, about a mile wide, at the foot of a seaward, hammer-head promontory rising to 400 feet. Its inhabitants, numbering perhaps 5,00…

, formerly capital of the Sindhia state of Gwāliyār, now a town in Madhya Prades̲h̲. “Tradition assigns the foundation of the city to one Sūrad̲j̲ Sen who was cured of leprosy by an ascetic named Gwālipa. The latter inhabited the hill on which the fort now stands, and this was called Gwāliyār after him”. The early history of Gwāliyār is, however, shrouded in myth and romance. The Hūna adventurers, Toramana and his son Mihirkula, who partially overthrew the Gupta power in the 6th century A.D., ar…

First mentioned in the al- Infāḳ al-maysūr of Muhammadu Bello (d. 1837) Gwandu was, at the beginning of the 19th century, a village in the prosperous little state of Kebbi (capital: Birnin Kebbi) in the western Sudan. In 1805, in the course of the Fulani d̲j̲ihād , Shehu Usumanu dan Fodio (d. 1817) established a temporary headquarters at Kambaza, near Gwandu, but was attacked by a coalition of the Kebbawa, Gobirawa and Tawāriḳ. The Fulani army was defeated and the survivors fell back on Gwandu where they stood siege un…

[see Čingāne , lūrī , nūrī , zuṭṭ ].

[see Ḏj̲iṣṣ ].

[see raml ].