Red Mount Barim
جبل بريم الأحمر
A red mountain in this region. The author reports the claim that the two obelisks of Alexandria were carved from it; he gives it as hearsay 1.
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Mount Barim al-Ahmar is a red mountain in this region. Al-Idrisi says it is said that the two obelisks of Alexandria were carved from it, a report he relays without confirming it. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 124
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.124
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