Gates of the Flour Merchants (building)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/636

gate of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca

Names

  • Arabic: باب الدقاقين = Bāb al-Daqqāqīn 1

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Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:378 [Arabic].
    • Gates of the Flour Merchants: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 203 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Evan Willford, “Gates of the Flour Merchants” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/636.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Evan Willford: place categorization and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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