The City of Brass

The City of Brass and the Dome of Lead are two reports that al-Mas'udi relates, and he places them in the deserts of al-Andalus. ²

Al-Mas'udi says that the kings of old could not reach it. He then gives the account of a commander of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, who camped before it, and of what befell the Muslims when they climbed its wall. They reported of themselves that they had reached the bliss of this world and the next. ²

Al-Mas'udi reports, in the form of hearsay, that its walls are of brass, and that it lies on the shore of the Abyssinian Sea at the edges of the deserts of India. ²

The location is not fixed, and the city has been placed in two locations. An additional source is needed.