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Lake Tinnis

بحيرة تنيس

A lake fed by the Nile, sweet in summer when the flood spreads and salt in winter when sea water prevails; it holds many fish, and al-Idrisi tells of two gardens said to have belonged to the sons of Atrib. 1

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Lake Tinnis: the Nile flows into it. Its water is fresh in summer when the Nile spreads out, and in winter the water of the sea prevails over it, and there are kinds of fish in it. al-Idrisi mentions in it the story of the two gardens of the two sons of Atrib. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 338
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.338
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islam.museum contributors. “Lake Tinnis”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/buhayrat-tinnis/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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