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al-Maghrib (region)

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"The West," a region from Morocco to western Libya

Names

  • Arabic: المغرب = al-Maghrib 1
  • Arabic: مغرب = Maghrib 2
  • Persian: مغرب = Maghrib 3

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 3 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 180، 211 (2) 6، 16 (3) 231 (5) 161 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 27, 28, 29, 51, 115, 118, 119, 125, 126, 129, 130, 136, 137, 144, 148, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 169, 172, 174, 176, 177, 179, 180, 183, 189, 202, 205, 206, 223, 236, 252, 278, 286, 291, 310, 312, 313, 314, 321, 354, 365, 380, 381, 383, 388, 389, 395, 396, 397, 398, 402, 410, 422, 424, 425, 426, 427, 429 [Arabic].
    • Maghrib: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 104, 105, 113, 138, 141, 142, 161, 162, 164, 175, 188, 189, 290-1, 326 [English].
  • 3Maghreb: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 15, 17, 34, 45, 54, 56, 62-63, 66, 69-70, 77, 79-80, 102 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Mary Papadopoulos, “al-Maghrib” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/13929.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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