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Overview
Mayyafariqin is a large, fine and fertile city at the foot of a mountain. Broad cloths, sabaniyyat and the well-known takak are made there. According to al-Idrisi it lies two stages from Amid. 2
Connections
- Ruled by
- al-Malik al-Kamil of Mayyafariqin
- Place of death of
- al-Malik al-Kamil of Mayyafariqin
- Under the rule of
- al-Malik al-Muzaffar Ghazi b. al-Adil
- Site of
- Saladin takes Mayyafariqin· Salah al-Din's siege of Mosul and the settlement of Shahrazur in 581
People and things also explored
صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب الملك الناصر· al-Malik al-Kamil of Mayyafariqin· al-Malik al-Muzaffar Ghazi b. al-Adil· al-Malik al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub· عز الدين مسعود بن مودود· Harran· Mosul· Saladin takes Mayyafariqin
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 663
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.663
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islam.museum contributors. “Mayyafariqin”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/mayyafariqin/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.