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Aghmat

أغمات

A city in the far Maghreb. The author names its merchants as travellers on the desert road with Sijilmasa and Draa toward the land of Ghana 1.

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Aghmat: a town in the Far Maghrib. Al-Idrisi says that its merchants travel the desert road with Sijilmasa and Draa to the land of Ghana. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 105
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.105
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islam.museum contributors. “Aghmat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/aghmat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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