Dai
داي
A town near Tadla with a mine of pure copper, which al-Idrisi describes as sweet-coloured copper used for silver alloy. 1
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Dai: a city near Tadla, with the pure copper mine to which copper is attributed in the East and the West. al-Idrisi describes it as sweet-coloured copper that enters into the bridle of silver. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 241
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.241
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islam.museum contributors. “Dai”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/dai/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.