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Dama

دما

A coastal village that is busy in winter and quieter in summer, with a famous pearl bed of very fine quality. 1

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Dama: a village on the coast, populous in winter and fewer in summer. In it is a pearl-diving ground of very good quality, famous for its fineness, according to al-Idrisi. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 156
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.156
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islam.museum contributors. “Dama”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/dama/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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