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Mirbat

مرباط

A town on the Hadramawt coast whose hills grow frankincense, which is shipped out from there. Its people are a mixture of Yemeni and other tribes, four days by land from Hasik 1.

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Mirbat is a city on the coast of the land of Hadramawt. Its mountains grow frankincense trees, and frankincense is shipped from it to other lands. Its people are a mixture of Yemeni tribes and others, and according to al-Idrisi it lies four days by land from Hasik. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 56
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.56
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islam.museum contributors. “Mirbat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/mirbat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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