Ramij
الرائج
A large island in the Zanj archipelago, about four hundred miles around. It has a high, defended mountain where outlaws take refuge. Its people are dark-skinned; rice, sugar and bananas grow there, and merchants visit each year 1.
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- East Africa & Swahili coast
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Ramij is a large island among the islands of the Zanj, whose circumference is four hundred miles or more, according to al-Idrisi. In it is a high, impregnable mountain to which those cut off from others take refuge. Some of its people are known as al-Sumra (the dark-complexioned). Rice, sugar and bananas grow there, and merchants come to it every year. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 62
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.62
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islam.museum contributors. “Ramij”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ramij/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.