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Dandama

دندمة

A small town in the Sofala lands, two sea passages and seven days by land from Jantama. Its people, like those of Jantama, are poor 1.

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East Africa & Swahili coast
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Dandama: a small city in the land of Sufala. Between it and Jantama there are two channels at sea and seven days by land, and its people are like the people of Jantama in poverty and humility, according to al-Idrisi. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 67-68
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.67-68
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islam.museum contributors. “Dandama”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/dandama/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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