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Azqar

آزقار

A nomadic Berber tribe of the desert with many camels and rich milk. The author reports that people of the Maghreb consider them the most skilled in the sand-writing said to go back to Daniel, and that they find lost items by drawing in sand 1, 2, 3.

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West Africa & Sahel
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Azqar is a Berber tribe of desert travellers, with many camels and abundant milk. 1

The author says that the people of the Maghrib are the most knowledgeable about the sand-divination script attributed to Daniel, and that they recover lost things by means of this script in the sand. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 112
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 113
  3. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 114
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