Malal
ملل
A small town without walls, like a large village, on a hill of red earth that protects its people from raids. They drink from a spring that rises in the mountain to the south, and its water is brackish. Its people are raided and sold, and everyone there is marked with a burn on the face 1.
At a glance
- Region
- West Africa & Sahel
- Review
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Overview
Malal is a small city without a wall, more like a large village. It stands on a mound of red earth that protects it, and its people fortify themselves there against the raids of other Sudanese peoples. 2
Its people drink from a spring that flows from a mountain to its south, and its water is brackish. Al-Idrisi mentions that some of its people are taken captive and sold, and that all of them are marked with fire on their faces. 2
Connections
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 14
People and things also explored
Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Uthman ibn Affan· Medina· Salah (the prescribed prayer)· Muwatta 14
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 22
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.22
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islam.museum contributors. “Malal”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/malal/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.