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Mount al-Muqattam

جبل المقطم

A mountain range running through the desert from the start of Egyptian lands toward Aswan, with ochre and lime quarried from some of its sites. The author says it holds old remains and treasures hidden by kings, and attributes to a circulating story a priest associated with the mountain 1 2.

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al-Muqattam: a mountain that extends from the first land of Egypt in the desert to near Aswan. al-Idrisi reports that ochre and lime are extracted from some of its places. 3

The author reports that the mountain has ancient remains and treasures that kings hid, and he ascribes to a widely told account the story of a priest with whom the mountain was associated. 4

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The Death of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah and His Sister's Concealment, 411

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al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Mansur ibn al-Aziz· al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah Ali ibn al-Hakim· Ibn Dawwas· Sitt al-Mulk· The Death of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah and His Sister's Concealment, 411

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 132
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 133
  3. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.132
  4. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.133
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al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Mansur ibn al-Aziz

Mansur ibn al-Aziz, sixth Ubaydid caliph, titled al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Al-Maqrizi says he disappeared in Shawwal 411 AH, and prefers the account of a man who confessed to killing him in 415 AH.