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The Outer Oases (al-Kharija)

الواحات الخارجة

Desert oases that were once farmed and fertile, but whose roads have fallen out of use. The author reports a lapis lazuli mine on a mountain there, with the stone carried to Egypt, and a great serpent that locals describe 1, 2.

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Desert oases that were once populated with crops and fruit, and whose roads were later effaced. The author mentions in them a great serpent that its people know, and a mountain whose ore is lapis lazuli, which is carried to Egypt. 1 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 121
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 122
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