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Namnaj Island

جزيرة النمنج

An island in the eastern sea, where, according to al-Idrisi's source in the Book of Marvels, a people with tails live under a king of their own. 1

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Namnaj is an island in the eastern sea. Al-Idrisi, quoting the author of the Book of Wonders, relates that on it there are people who have tails, and that they have a king from among them. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 214
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.214
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islam.museum contributors. “Namnaj Island”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/namnaj/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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