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Murcia

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A city on the river that bears its name; the author gives its distance from Lorca as forty miles. 1

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A city on the river known as the river of Murcia. Al-Idrisi mentions that it lies forty miles from Lorca. 2

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محمد الرِّقوطي

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 561
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.561
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محمد الرِّقوطي

Muhammad al-Riquti of Murcia, among the most learned Andalusis in the ancient sciences — logic, geometry, arithmetic, music and medicine; when the Christian king took Murcia he recognised his worth and built him a school in which he taught Muslims, Christians and Jews, and refused the offer of conversion.