Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ AR | EN | UR

Mama

ماما

A walled town built mostly of mud brick, with farms and crops, one stage from Tahart. 1

Depth

At a glance

Region
Maghreb
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Overview

Mama is a city most of whose buildings are of brick. It has a wall encircling it, and it has farms and crops. It lies one stage from Tahart, 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. 256
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.256
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Mama”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/mama-maghrib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Place

Cities, sites and routes on a map that moves through time.