At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Scattered notes in his own work show that before 698/1298 al-Nuwayri spent some time in Upper Egypt and in Egypt generally: in the agriculture chapters he speaks from personal experience of districts visited and practices observed, and in the animal section he mentions the elephant tusks he saw at Qus in 697/1298 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Nuwayri
- Occurred at
- Qus
- During the reign of
- al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi
People and things also explored
Al-Nuwayri's birth at Akhmim, 21 Dhu al-Qa'da 677/5 April 1279· Al-Nuwayri sent to Syria to run the diwan al-khass, Jumada II 701/January 1302· Al-Nuwayri joins the diwan al-khass and resides at the Nasiriyya, 698/1298· Cairo· Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 156
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Nuwayri in Upper Egypt: elephant tusks at Qus, 697/1298”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/nuwayri-qus-697/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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