al-Mahdīya - المهدية
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“[A] town in Tunisia which owes its name to its founder ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mahdī (297-322/909-34 [q.v.]); situated on the coast 200 km. to the south of Tunis.” 2
Names
- المهدية1
- al-Mahdīya
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 35.50472° Long. 11.06222°3
Descriptions
“ثم ذكرت المغرب ورسمته في وجهين وبدأت بذكر ما حاد منه ارض مصر الى المهدية والقيروان وما في براريها من المدن وان قلت واعقبتها بباقى صورته من القيروان والمهدية الى ارض طنجة وأزيلى” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 7.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://sws.geonames.org/2473572," GeoNames
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“al-Mahdīya - المهدية .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5062.About this Entry
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Additional Credit:
- 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 Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
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