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Jabal Nafusa

جبل نفوسة

A high mountain about three days long, with villages, barley fields and running water; al-Idrisi says the Masmuda tribes live there. 1

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Mount Nafusa is a high mountain about three days long. It has villages, barley fields and running water, and al-Idrisi says the Masamda tribes live on it. 2

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Sulayman al-Baruni

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Sulayman al-Baruni

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 278
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.278
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Sulayman al-Baruni

Libyan Ibadi scholar, poet and statesman (c. 1870–1940). From the Jabal Nafusa, he studied at the Zitouna, al-Azhar and in the M'zab, sat in the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies, fought in the resistance to the Italian invasion, served as wali of Tripolitania and later as finance minister in Oman, and died in Mumbai.