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al-Muqaddasi's journey to Aleppo, c. 354–364/965–975

رحلة المقدسي إلى حلب نحو ٣٥٤–٣٦٤هـ

c. 965 CE · c. 354 AH – c. 975 CE · c. 364 AH

Aleppo

His own work shows al-Muqaddasi travelled to Aleppo, probably between 354 and 364 AH (965–975 CE) 1.

Depth

At a glance

Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

950960970980990 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

In space

Aleppo

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Overview

Al-Muqaddasi's own work shows that he travelled to Aleppo, probably in the years between 354 and 364 AH (965–975 CE) 1.

Connections

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Had participant
al-Muqaddasi al-Bashshari
Occurred at
Aleppo

People and things also explored

Abu Dawud's wider journey: Egypt, the Jazira, Harran and Aleppo· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Al-Farabi at Sayf al-Dawla's court· Al-Sakhawi's Syrian rihla: Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem, c. 873· al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ moved to Aleppo — Saʿd al-Dīn Kumashtakīn seizes the regency· The exchange of Aleppo, from Mosul to Sinjar· Battle of Aleppo (1400)

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 544
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Muqaddasi's journey to Aleppo, c. 354–364/965–975”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/muqaddasi-aleppo-journey/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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Abu Dawud's wider journey: Egypt, the Jazira, Harran and Aleppo

Abu Dawud heard a great many teachers in the Hijaz, Egypt, al-Sham, the frontier and Khurasan; Abu Ja'far al-Nufayli and a circle in the Jazira; Abu Tawba al-Rabi' ibn Nafi' at Aleppo; Ahmad ibn Abi Shu'ayb at Harran; and Haywa and Yazid ibn 'Abd Rabbih at Homs. In his Sunan he recalls measuring a cucumber thirteen spans at Egypt and seeing a citron carried on a camel cut into two halves. This wider circuit falls in the 230s of the hijra, after his first journey and before he settled at Basra.