Index:
La busca de Averroes, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 584. 7 de enero de 1938, BH,Borges en El Hogar 1935-1958. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2000. 88.
city in lower Mesopotamia, now in Iraq
Fishburn and Hughes: "A town in southern Iraq near the Persian Gulf. Under the rule of the Abbasids, Basra became an intellectual centre, home, among others, to the Muslim scholar Chahiz or Al-Jahiz." (23-24)