Ghayara
غيارة
A town on the Nile with a ditch around it and many people. Its people are bold and skilled; they raid the Lamlam lands, take captives and sell them to Ghana's merchants. Eleven stages from Ghana and thirteen from Lamlam. 1
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Ghayara is a town on the bank of the Nile, with a ditch around it, and many people live there. Al-Idrisi describes its people as valiant and knowledgeable, and says that they raid the land of Lamlam, take its people captive and sell them to the merchants of Ghana. It lies eleven stages from Ghana and thirteen from Lamlam. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 26
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.26
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islam.museum contributors. “Ghayara”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ghayara/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.