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Mirbat

مرباط

A town on the Hadramawt coast whose hills grow frankincense, which is shipped out from there. Its people are a mixture of Yemeni and other tribes, four days by land from Hasik 1.

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Mirbat is a city on the coast of the land of Hadramawt. Its mountains grow frankincense trees, and frankincense is shipped from it to other lands. Its people are a mixture of Yemeni tribes and others, and according to al-Idrisi it lies four days by land from Hasik. 2

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Mahmud al-Himyari seizes Mirbat in Hadramawt

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Mahmud al-Himyari of Mirbat· Mahmud al-Himyari seizes Mirbat in Hadramawt

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 56
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.56
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islam.museum contributors. “Mirbat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/mirbat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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Mahmud al-Himyari of Mirbat

From boat-hirer to lord of the Dhofar coast — Mahmud al-Himyari served as vizier to Mirbat's ruler, inherited the city by popular affection for his generosity, and in 619 rebuilt it as the walled al-Ahmadiyya beside a great freshwater spring; a lavish patron of poets.