Shiyakha

A shiyakha^[1][a] (Arabic: شياخة, romanized: šiyāḵa, lit. 'jurisdiction of a shaykh')^[4] is an Arabic language term for the fourth-layer of subdivisions of Egypt.

Notes

1. Also spelled shiyakhah^[2] or sheyakha(h).^[3]

References

1. Horwood 2011, p. 164.
2. Lowry, Joseph Edmund; Stewart, Devin J. (2009-01-01). Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1350-1850. Isd. ISBN 9783447059336.
3. Natalija Gelvanovska; Michel Rogy; Carlo Maria Rossotto (11 February 2014). Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa: Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access. World Bank Publications. pp. 33–. ISBN 978-1-4648-0113-6.
4. Wehr, Hans (1979), “شياخة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, page 580

Sources

• Horwood, Chris (2011). Cairo.