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mujāwir

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A Muslim "sojourner" who stays at a holy place for prolonged instruction

Names

  • Arabic: المجاور, المجاورة, المجاورون = al-mujāwir, al-mujāwira, al-mujāwirūn 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]), 1:311, 357-359, 391-392, 410; 2:88, 90-91 [Arabic].
    • ‘Sojourners’ : 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, 129, 176-77, 221-3, 247-8; II, 356, 358 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “mujāwir” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/296.

Additional credit information:

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