Medina
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A city in Arabia, regarded by
Muslims as the second holiest city, and the capital of the earliest
caliphate.
Names
Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“فمنها بقيع الغرقد، وهو بشرقي المدينة المكرمة، ويخرج إليه على باب يعرف بباب البقيع.” 7
“في التربة التي اتّخذها الجوبان بالقرب من مسجد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فمنع من ذلك ودفن بالبقيع. والجوبان هو الذي جلب الماء إلى مكّة شرفها الله تعالى.” 9
“قبا مدينة بفرغانة وقرية بيثرب ومنزل بالبادية” 5
“وقبر الحسن بن علي بن أبي طالب عليهم السلام، وهي قبة ذاهبة في الهواء بديعة الإحكام، عن يمين الخارج من باب البقيع، ورأس الحسن إلى رجلي العباس عليهما السلام، وقبراهما مرتفعان عن الارض، متسعان مغشّيان بألواح بديعة الالصاق، مرصّعة بصفائح الصفر البديعة العمل. وبالبقيع قبور المهاجرين والأنصار وسائر الصّحابة رضي الله عنهم. إلا أنها لا يعرف أكثرها. وفي آخر البقيع قبر أمير المؤمنين أبي عمر عثمان ابن عفّان رضي الله عنه.” 8
“Medina is situated in the Ḥid̲j̲āz
province of Saʿūdī Arabia in latitude 24° 28′ N, longitude 39° 36′ E, about 160 km. from
the Red Sea and about 350 km. north of Mecca.” 6
Attestation
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"Medina" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 220, 302.
- 2 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 58, 78.
- 3 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 138, 139, 239, 42, 111, 114, 128, 129, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 1140, 141, 145, 185, 190, 239, 378, 667.
- 4 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 6-8, 18, 23, 56, 59, 73, 125, 164, 188-203, 205.
- 5 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 27.
- 6 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 7 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 138.
- 8 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 139.
- 9 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 239.
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- Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
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- Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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