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al-Shaqqa (Sciacca)

الشاقة

A town on the sea coast with wide open ground, which in al-Idrisi's time was the mother of the districts, visited by travellers from Ifriqiya and the island's edges. 1

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Al-Shaqqa is a town on the sea shore, overlooking and spacious in its expanse. Al-Idrisi says that in his time it was the mother of the regions to which people go, and travellers come to it from Ifriqiya and the edges of al-Jazira. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 600
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.600
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Shaqqa (Sciacca)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/shaqqa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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