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Awdaghast

أودغست

A small city in a dry desert, set between two hills, which the author compares in shape to Mecca. Its trade is weak and its people live from camels. He gives twelve stages to Ghana, thirty-one to Wargla and about twenty-five to Jarma 1.

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Awdaghast: a small city in a desert with little water, between two mountains, according to al-Idrisi. He likens its shape to Mecca, its trade is weak, and its people live on camels. He reports that the road from it to Ghana is twelve stages, to Warqalan thirty-one, and to Jarma about twenty-five. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 108
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.108
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