Map of the canals (<i>nahr</i>s) along the Blind Tigris (modern Shatt al-Arab) in southern Iraq in around 900 AD. The canals are as follows:
<p>1. Nahr Abu al-Asad
2. Nahr al-Marah
3. Nahr al-Dayr	
4. Nahr Bithq Shirin
5. Nahr Ma'qil
6. Nahr al-Ubulla
7. Nahr Abu al-Khasib
8. Nahr al-Amir
9. Nahr al-Qandil
</p><p>Not depicted: the Nahr al-Yahudi, between the Nahr al-Ubulla and the Nahr Abu al-Khasib.
</p><p>Background map is from Le Strange, <i>Lands,</i> Map II. The information on the canals comes from Le Strange, <i>Ibn Serapion,</i> pp. 297, 299-300, 303-307.
</p><p>References:
</p>
<ul><li>Le Strange, Guy. "Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdad, written about the year 900 A.D. by Ibn Serapion." <i>The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1895.</i> London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1895.</li>
<li>Le Strange, Guy. <i>The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur.</i> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905.</li></ul>
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