[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [Encyclopaedias](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua) › [مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt) › 2.32 # مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.32 English (machine translation) 2.32 - **Language:** English ### [2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.32) I asked Shaykh Mubārak about the city of Delhi and its condition. He told me that Delhi is several cities joined into one city, each with a known name; Delhi is only one of them, but its name has come to be applied to them all. It extends in length and breadth, the circuit of its built-up area being forty miles. Its buildings are of stone and brick, its roofs of timber, and its floors paved with a white stone resembling marble. No one builds there more than two storeys, and some have a single storey. None paves with marble except the Sultan. - [Previous: 2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.31) - [Next: 2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.33) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2) ## Translations (1) - [Masáliku-l Absár (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-elliot.1.2) — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1871, English ## Linked texts (1) - [مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar.2.32) — Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.32) · Pramāṇa