Muhammad ibn Makki al-Amili

محمد بن مكي العاملي

1334 CE · 734 AH† – 1384 CE · 786 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Muhammad ibn Makki al-Amili known as al-Shahid al-Awwal, the fourteenth-century jurist of Jabal Amil author of al-Lum'a al-Dimashqiyya, executed in 1385; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Zamzam Well

Zamzam is the sacred well at the edge of the sanctuary at Mecca, east of the Kaaba beside the wall holding the Black Stone and a little farther from the centre than the Station of Abraham. The Encyclopaedia of Islam says the name is onomatopoeic and means abundant water in the medieval dictionaries, and that Abbasid-period accounts folded the well into a mythic discourse that goes beyond the Qur'anic text, which does not refer to it directly. Pilgrims have treasured its water as blessed and curative from early Islamic times to today.

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