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Tripoli (al-Sham)

طرابلس (الشام)

A great city with a strong wall, rich in olives, fruit and grains; al-Idrisi describes it as a stronghold of Islam on the Syrian coast. 1

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Tarabulus (al-Sham) is a great city with a strong wall. It has olives, fruits and kinds of crops. Al-Idrisi describes it as a bastion of the bastions of Islam on the coast of al-Sham. 2

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Qalawun Takes Tripoli by the Sword

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السلطان المنصور سيف الدين قلاوون· Qalawun Takes Tripoli by the Sword

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 372
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.372
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islam.museum contributors. “Tripoli (al-Sham)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/tarabulus-sham/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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السلطان المنصور سيف الدين قلاوون

Atabeg to the boy Salamish then sultan as al-Mansur from 679; he broke the Tatar host of 680, took Tripoli by the sword in 688, and died Dhu'l-Qa'da 689.