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Nablus is the city of the Samaritans. In it is the well at which, according to the people of Jerusalem, Isa sat and asked the Samaritan woman for water. It lies one day from Ramla, according to al-Idrisi. 2
Al-Maqdisi describes it as called "Lesser Damascus", abundant in olives, in a valley pressed between two mountains. Its market runs from gate to gate, its congregational mosque in the middle is paved and clean, and its people have wondrous underground chambers. 3
Connections
- Birthplace of
- Hanan Ashrawi
- Place of death of
- Muhammad b. Abd al-Hadi al-Maqdisi· Sayf al-Din al-Qaymari
- Site of
- Earthquake at Ramla and the sea's recession, 425· The Faryani's Mahdist claim· Damascus submits to the Tatars, 658· Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's procession of women's hair and the march to Nablus, 606
People and things also explored
Damascus· Louis IX captured near Mansura, 648· Shams al-Din al-Faryani· al-Nasir, lord of Damascus· Kitbugha Noyan· سبط ابن الجوزي· Amman· Gaza
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 356
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.356
- Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim of al-Muqaddasi , p.142
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islam.museum contributors. “Nablus”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/nablus/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.