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Ras al-Muhjama

رأس المحجمة

A high headland on the coast, passed by travellers overland, with pearl beds off its tip. 1

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Ras al-Muhjama is a high mountain on the shore of the sea, which the traveller passes by land. At its head in the sea are pearl beds (maghayis), 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. 156
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.156
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