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al-Muqaddasi's visit to Khurasan, 374/984

زيارة المقدسي خراسان سنة ٣٧٤هـ

984 CE · 374 AH

خراسان

Al-Muqaddasi visited Khurasan in 374/984, the furthest east of his recorded journeys; his mother's family came from Biyar, a small Khurasanian town, his grandfather Abu Tayyib al-Shawwa having emigrated to Jerusalem 1.

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Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Persia & Central Asia

In time

9709809901000
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

In space

خراسان

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Overview

Al-Muqaddasi visited Khurasan in 374/984, the furthest east of his recorded journeys 1.

His family's link to Khurasan

Al-Muqaddasi's mother came from Biyar, a small town of Khurasan; her father, Abu Tayyib al-Shawwa, was reasonably well off and an expert in the art of construction, and emigrated to Jerusalem 1.

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Had participant
al-Muqaddasi al-Bashshari
Occurred at
خراسان

People and things also explored

Dome of the Rock· Ismailis massacred in Khurasan· Khwarazmshah seizes the Ghurid lands in Khurasan· the Khwarazmshah retakes what the Ghurids had seized· al-Muqaddasi's journey to Aleppo, c. 354–364/965–975· al-Muqaddasi's first pilgrimage, 356/967· al-Muqaddasi's second pilgrimage, 367/978· al-Muqaddasi resolves to compose Ahsan al-Taqasim at Shiraz, 375/985

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 544
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Dome of the Rock

The Dome of the Rock stands on a platform in the Haram al-Sharif at Jerusalem; the Encyclopaedia of Islam calls it the oldest surviving monument of Islamic architecture. Its long inscription dates it to 72/691-2 under Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, and it is a dome ringed by two octagonal ambulatories with an interior covered in mosaic. The encyclopaedia reports three explanations of its purpose, a memorial of the Night Journey and Ascension, a substitute for the pilgrimage to Mecca, and a proclamation of the new faith in the city of the two older religions, sets each out without settling it, and says the debate is not closed. Al-Muqaddasi described it about 375 AH and al-Umari measured it in the Mamluk period.