Rīgān

Rigan lies in the hot desert country south of Fahraj, on the edge of the Narmashir district. The medieval geographer Muqaddasi noted the fortifications of a place called Rikan or Righan in this area. Date palms and irrigated plots mark the inhabited margins of a landscape also known for drifting sand. Mudbrick forts and old underground water channels recall the settlements that have long occupied this difficult southern fringe of the Lut.