Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

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• The Zīzwā Island
Al-Idrīsī has made mention of the Khārijī presence there. He says:
هذه الجزيرة عامرة بأهلها،‏ وهم قوم نكار خوارج عن اإلسالم...‏ وكذلك جيمع الحصون والقصورالتي
تلي هاتين الجزيرتين يعني جربة وزيزوا يتمذهبون بمثل ذلك.‏
This island is fully populated and its people are strange and are Khawārij.
Likewise all the forts and palaces which are near these two islands, Jarbah
and Zīzwā, also subscribe to the same dogma. 2
• Sarūs
Al-Ḥamawī has indicated that its people are Khawārij. He says:
أهلها إباضية خوارج،‏ ليس بها جامع ول فيما حولها من القرى
Its people are Ibāḍī Khawārij. Therein there is no central Masjid, nor in any
of its surrounding villages. 3
The author of al-Rawḍ al-Miʿṭār has also suggested the same. 4
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• Sijilmāsah
1 A small island adjacent to the Jarbah Island to its east. See: Nuzhah al-Mushtāq fī Ikhtirāq al-Ᾱfāq 1/306.
2 Nuzhah al-Mushtāq fī Ikhtirāq al-Ᾱfāq 1/306 (with a little of difference).
3 Muʿjam al-Buldān 3/316.
4 Al-Rawḍ al-Miʿṭār fī Khabar al-Aqṭār p. 316. Its author is Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh
ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAbd al-Nūr al-Ḥimyarī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh. A jurist, linguistic, geographer and
historian from the people of Sabtah. He passed away 727 A.H. some of his works are: al-Rawḍ al-Miʿṭār.
See: al-Aʿlām of al-Zarkalī: 7/53; Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn 11/238; the introduction of al-Rawḍ al-Miʿṭār of
Iḥsān ʿAbbās.
5 Sijilmāsah: A city which is situated on the western side of the great desert and is currently part of
Morocco. Through it passes the valley of Īslī. It was one of the most important cities for commerce
in the Islamic era due to caravans passing through it to West Africa. Today it is part of the Rīsānī city
and is about 325 km from Fās. See: Muʿjam al-Buldān 3/192; Tārīkh Ibn Khaldūn 6/147; al-Istiqṣā li Akhbār
Duwal al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā 1/180.
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