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Sadd Marib

سد مأرب

A great dam across the watercourse near the city of Marib, built with care by its people, who lived beside it and watered their fields from it. Al-Idrisi says a great flood broke the dam and scattered the people of the city and the Arabs across the land. 1

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The Dam of Ma'rib is a great dam in the course of water near the city of Ma'rib. Al-Idrisi mentions that its people perfected its construction, that their homes were built on it, and that they watered their farms from it. He mentions that a great flood destroyed the dam, and the people of the city and the Arabs scattered across the land. 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. 153
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.153
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islam.museum contributors. “Sadd Marib”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sadd-marib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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