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Tunis

تونس

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Tunis is the capital of Tunisia today. Ibn Battuta passed through it on his journey from the Maghrib to the East. 1

Its founding

The source relates that Hassan ibn al-Nu'man founded it in the year 82 AH as a naval base, to prevent repeated Byzantine attacks on Carthage, and that he dug a canal connecting it to the sea. It is mentioned that Abd al-Malik sent to it from Egypt two thousand Coptic craftsmen to establish shipbuilding. 1

The coordinates come from GeoNames for the modern site, and matching them to the ancient place needs an additional source.

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Site of
Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi's break with the Almohads· Abu al-Hasan al-Marini's entry into Ifriqiya· استرداد تونس من الإسبان

People and things also explored

أبو الحسن المريني سلطان المغرب· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi· al-Mustansir billah al-Hafsi· Louis IX of France· Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi's break with the Almohads· Abu al-Hasan al-Marini's entry into Ifriqiya· استرداد تونس من الإسبان

Sources

  1. الدولة الأموية: عوامل الازدهار وتداعيات الانهيار — علي محمد الصلابي (الجزء الثاني، 2005), p.20-21
  • GeoNames gazetteer
  • Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958
  • محمد قباني، الدولة الأموية من الميلاد إلى السقوط (دمشق، دار وحي القلم، 2006)
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أبو الحسن المريني سلطان المغرب

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman al-Marini, sultan of the Maghreb, who styled himself amir al-mu'minin, 'sultan of the two shores, guardian of both banks'; he copied three noble mushafs in his own hand for the three mosques to which journeys are made, endowed waqfs on them whose titulature the great chancery writer Ibn Nubata composed, and sent al-Nasir Muhammad 325 great rubies, 128 emeralds and 128 zabarjads — al-Maqqari himself saw the Jerusalem copy in finest workmanship; he ruled ten years and seven days before his son Abu Inan deposed him.