تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.49.6

13.49.6

Then we travelled to the city of ʿAlābūr — its name is pronounced with a after the ʿ, l, alif, b with u, w and r — a small city most of whose inhabitants are infidels under protection. A day's journey from it is an infidel sultan named Qatam — with a after the q and the t — who is the sultan of Janbīl — with a after the j, a quiescent n, i after the b, a long ī, and l — the one who besieged the city of Kiyālīr and was later killed.