Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

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• Tāhirt (Tiaret)
Al-Maqdisī, 2 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, 3 Ibn al-Athīr, 4 Ibn Khaldūn, 5 Abū al-ʿAbbās
al-Nāṣirī 6 all have alluded to the Khawārij building this city and residing
therein.
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• Jabal Nafūsah (Nafusa Mountains)
1 Tāhirt is the name of two cities facing one another in the central west (currently in Algeria). The
first one is known as the Old Tāhirt, which is beyond our discussion. The second one is the New Tāhirt,
which is a city where it frequently rains and is always fogy. It is five miles away from the Old city. It
was founded by the Ibāḍī Khawārij in the West and thereafter became of the capital of the Rustumī
dynasty. See: Muʿjam al-Buldān 2/7; Tārīkh Ibn Khaldūn 6/147. Now it is known as Tiaret and is 300 km
on the southern western side of Algeria.
2 Al-Badʾ wa al-Tārīkh 4/73. Maqdisī is Muṭahhar ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī. A historian who hails from Bayt
al-Maqdis. He passed away in 355 A.H. See: al-Aʿlām 7/253; Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn 12/294.
3 Muʿjam al-Buldān 2/8.
4 Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 6/461. Ibn al-Athīr is ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Shaybānī, Abū
al-Hasan al-Jazarī. A Shāfiʿī ḥadīth expert. He became well-known for his vast knowledge in Arabic
literature, history and genealogy. He was born in 555 A.H. He moved from place to place maintaining
his grandeur and esteem. He passed away in 630 A.H. Some of his works are: al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh,
Usd al-Ghābah, Tahdhīb al-Ansāb. See: Wafayāt al-Aʿyān 3/348; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 22/354; Ṭabaqāt al-
Shāfiʿiyyah al-Kubrā 8/299; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 5/137.
5 Tārīkh Ibn Khaldūn 4/51, 6/147, 159.
6 Al-Istiqṣā li Akhbār Duwal al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā 1/184. Al-Nāṣirī is Aḥmad ibn Khālid ibn Ḥammād al-
Nāṣirī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Salāwī. A great research scholar of the West. He became famous for his work
in history. He was born in 1250 A.H. He is from the progeny of Jaʿfar I. He shifted from position to
position in the government and thereafter he went into seclusion in order to complete his works. He
passed away in Salā in Morocco in 1315. Some of his works are: al-Istiqṣā, Zahr al-Afnān min Ḥadīqah ibn
al-Wannān; Ṭulʿah al-Mushtarī fī al-Nasab al-Jaʿfarī. See: Muʿjam al-Maṭbūʿāt al-ʿArabiyyah 1/104; al-Aʿlām
1/120, Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn 1/214.
7 This is a range of high mountains in the west. There are many villages in and around it. Between it
and Ṭarābulus is a distance of three days, and between it and Qayrawān is a distance of six days. See:
Muʿjam al-Buldān 3/217. This mountain now falls part of Libya and is famously known as the western
mountain, although the old name still stands.
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