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  • Welcome to ''Medieval Nubia: A Source Book.'' ...l below, or use [[Special:Book|the Collections program]] to build your own book of Nubian sources from scratch. ...
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  • | Ma’atūm <ref>See Benjamin of Tudela in the Oriental Source-book</ref> | Capheturici <ref>See John of Würzburg in the Occidental Source-book.</ref> ...
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  • Welcome to ''Medieval Nubia: A Source Book.'' ...l below, or use [[Special:Book|the Collections program]] to build your own book of Nubian sources from scratch. ...
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  • ...uffer and receive persecution and punishment from the power of the Sultan (book 1, part 5, chap. 2) ...ries above Egypt: they will descend upon their enemies from their part... (book 2, , part 1, chap. 3) ...
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  • '''Main Features:''' [[Medieval_Nubia:_A_Source_Book|Medieval Nubia: A Source Book]], an online, print-on-demand, customizable collection of sources in transl ...
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  • The source of the first river is at Long. 48° 0', the second's at Long. 49° 0', the t ...rivers start from ''Jabal al-Qamar'' and flow down to the second lake. The source of the first is at Long. 55° 20'; the second's at 56° 20'; the third's at 5 ...
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  • ''Historiae adversus paganos (7 book history).'' ...by watering the planes of Egypt. Some historians say this was far from the source at Athlante. It has continuous sinking sand and vast lakes in a short space ...
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  • ...i's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia]]'' already available in this source book. ...
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  • The land of Egypt (''Miṣr'') is described in the Book<ref>Ibn Khordadhbeh, ''K. al-masālik'', p. 9.</ref> in this way: "The area Some people say that the Nile flows from the Equator, its source consists of two lakes (''buhayratayn'') called the "Lakes of the Nile". It ...
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  • [On the Source of the Nile] Al-Wāṭwāṭ wrote in his book: "''Manābi’ al-fikr''": "The length of the Nile is over 3,000 farsakhs [= 1 ...
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  • [The Nile Source] ...in the ''Nūbah country'' is one mile, according to what the author of "The Book of Marvels" told - while in Egypt the width is one-third of a mile. ...
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  • ...update 02/03/2015) for this site's [[Medieval_Nubia:_A_Source_Book|Source Book]]: ...
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  • ...with Lake Victoria and other major equatorial lakes.</ref>, which is the source of the Nile of Egypt, the Nile of Maqdashū and the Nile of Ghāna, is situat ...er. A kind of fish with many thorns is found here. This lake is fed from a source situated on the southern slope of a mountain. Fights break out often betwee ...
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  • ...and other Zanj tribes; we have already mentioned them in that part of this book dealing with the Barbarī Gulf<ref>The Sea of Somaliland.</ref> of the Sea o ...ibāj'') and silks (''harīr'') and gold, despite of the prohibition of your Book and your religion (''dīn'')?' I explained: 'As power was falling from our h ...
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  • ...rukhkh'', the hunt to the zumurrudah and the method of catching it in [the book] ''al-Ju’rāfiyyah'' (sic!). The scientists (''ḥukamāʾ'') have also mentione ...drawn towards the ground and [creep rather than] walk, to a place near the source of the Nile which rises from the Jabal al-Qamar. Were it not for that trick ...
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  • ''K. al-‘Ibar wa-diwān al-mubtadā’ wa-l-khabar (The Book of Admonitions; a history of the Arab and Berber tribes of North Africa and ''Book 1 of it is the famous Muqaddimah (Introduction). "''Al-Muqaddima''", alone, ...
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  • ...A.D. Wrote, besides other works, a Chronicle in Syriac, which is the main source for the history of the Jacobite Church up to 1195 A.D.'' [Lib.IX, ch. XXVIII]: In the book of John of Asia [i.e. '''[p. 311]''' John of Ephesus] there is a comprehens ...
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  • ...rtunes under Islam; as I have not found any mention of them in any history book, therefore, I shall give a summary of their history which will be appreciat ...f>Possibly the Atbara River.</ref>, a tributary of the Nile, which has its source in Ḥabasha and by the River Dujn<ref>Most probably the Gash River; Dujn is ...
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  • ''2.) From: "Kitāb as-Sulūk" ("The Book of the Way to know the Dynasties of Kings")'' ...two sides joined battle from morning to sunset. God hat it written in His book that the emir Ḥiṣnaddīn [was to] fall from his horse: his friends rushed ar ...
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  • 2.) From: "Kitāb as-sulūk" ("The Book of the Way to know the Dynasties of Kings") ...two sides joined battle from morning to sunset. God hat it written in His book that the emir Ḥiṣnaddīn (was to) fall from his horse: his friends rushed ar ...
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  • '''[p. 590]''' In the Commentary of the Fourth Book of Ptolemy<ref>The first Arab commentator of Ptolemy was Al-Khuwārizmī (q.v ...t. It traverses the country of the Nūba and merges with another river, the source of which is not in the region across the equator. That lake is vast and rou ...
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