al-Dardur
الدردور
A place at sea where the water turns without pause; anything that falls into it, according to the author, keeps circling until it is destroyed. 1
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al-Dardur: a place in the sea where the water turns constantly and never stops. al-Idrisi reports that any ship that falls into it keeps turning until it is destroyed. 2
This is al-Idrisi's description alone, and it needs an additional source.
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 164
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.164
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Dardur”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/al-dardur/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.