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Tunis, capital of Tunisia today, which Ibn Battuta passed on his way from the Maghreb to the Mashriq; Hassan ibn al-Nu'man founded it in 82 AH as a naval base.
Tunis, capital of Tunisia today, which Ibn Battuta passed on his way from the Maghreb to the Mashriq. The source says Hassan ibn al-Nu'man founded it in 82 AH as a naval base to bar repeated Byzantine attacks on Carthage, digging a canal joining it to the sea; and that Abd al-Malik sent it two thousand skilled Copts from Egypt to establish the shipbuilding craft.
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Tunis, capital of Tunisia today, which Ibn Battuta passed on his way from the Maghreb to the Mashriq. The source says Hassan ibn al-Nu'man founded it in 82 AH as a naval base to bar repeated Byzantine attacks on Carthage, digging a canal joining it to the sea; and that Abd al-Malik sent it two thousand skilled Copts from Egypt to establish the shipbuilding craft.
Overview
Tunis is the capital of Tunisia today. Ibn Battuta passed through it on his journey from the Maghrib to the East. 1
Its founding
The source relates that Hassan ibn al-Nu'man founded it in the year 82 AH as a naval base, to prevent repeated Byzantine attacks on Carthage, and that he dug a canal connecting it to the sea. It is mentioned that Abd al-Malik sent to it from Egypt two thousand Coptic craftsmen to establish shipbuilding. 1
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- Birthplace of
- Abdelaziz Thâalbi· Ali Bach Hamba· Béchir Sfar· Chokri El Ouaer· Kais Saied· Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur· Tahar Haddad· Tarak Dhiab· Youssef Msakni
- Place of death of
- Abdelaziz Thâalbi· Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi· Béchir Sfar· Beji Caid Essebsi· Ibn al-Abbar· Ibn Sayyid al-Nas the Elder
- Ruled by
- al-Hasan b. Muhammad al-Hafsi· al-Amir al-Rashid al-Hafsi
- Burial place of
- Ali Bach Hamba· Beji Caid Essebsi· Tahar Haddad
- Home of
- Princess Nazli Fazl
- Site of
- Khayr al-Din takes Tunis (1534)· Charles V's conquest of Tunis (1535)· Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi's break with the Almohads· Abu al-Hasan al-Marini's entry into Ifriqiya· The Recovery of Tunis from the Spanish
- Contains
- al-Zaytuna Mosque
People and things also explored
خير الدين بربروسة· Istanbul· Hafsid dynasty· al-Hasan b. Muhammad al-Hafsi· al-Amir al-Rashid al-Hafsi· Abu al-Hasan al-Marini, sultan of the Maghrib· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi· al-Mustansir billah al-Hafsi
Sources
- The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005) , p.20-21
- GeoNames gazetteer
- Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958
- Muhammad Qabbani, The Umayyad State from Birth to Fall (Damascus: Dar Wahy al-Qalam, 2006)
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islam.museum contributors. “Tunis”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/tunis/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.