Nablus
نابلس
The city of the Samaritans, with the well where, as the people of Jerusalem say, a visitor asked a Samaritan woman for water; a day from Ramla. 1
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Nablus is the city of the Samaritans. In it is the well at which, according to the people of Jerusalem, Isa sat and asked the Samaritan woman for water. It lies one day from Ramla, according to al-Idrisi. 2
Al-Maqdisi describes it as called "Lesser Damascus", abundant in olives, in a valley pressed between two mountains. Its market runs from gate to gate, its congregational mosque in the middle is paved and clean, and its people have wondrous underground chambers. 3
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 356
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.356
- Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim of al-Muqaddasi, p.142
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