Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

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• Qābis
Ibn al-Athīr 2 and al-Ayyūbī 3 have alluded to the presence of the Khawārij
there.
This city is the oldest city in which the Khawārij existed, for they made it
their base during the Umayyad Empire; and very frequently wars would
break out between them and Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik. 4
5
• Maṭmāṭah
Al-Ayyūbī has made mention of the Khārijī presence there. 6
7
• Maqrah
Al-Ayyūbī has made mention of the Khārijī presence there. 8
1 Qābis is a Tunisian city which is situated at the gulf of gabes, south of the city of Madiyyah and west
of the island of Jarbah. It is approximately 400 km away from the capital of Tunisia. It was conquered
with Qayrawān in 72 A.H. See: Muʿjam al-Buldān 4/289; al-Ansāb 4/421; al-Muʿjab 1/349.
2 Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 4/417, 5/195.
3 Miḍmār al-Khalāʾiq wa Sirr al-Khalāʾiq 1/54.
4 Futūḥ Miṣr wa Akhbāruhā p. 365; Nafḥ al-Ṭīb 3/20. Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān al-Qurashī,
Abū al-Walīd al-Umawī al-Dimashqī. He ascended the throne after his brother Yazīd in 105 A.H. He
was very bright and firm in his views, was a man of tolerance and forbearance, and an amasser of
wealth and miserly. Likewise he hated to shed blood. He passed away in 125 A.H. See: Siyar Aʿlām al-
Nubalāʾ 5/351; al-ʿIbar fī Khabar man Ghabar 1/160; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 9/351; Shadharāt al-Dhahab
1/163.
5 A mountainous area which currently is in the south of Tunisia. It was named after one of the Berber
tribes which populated it. See: Muʿjam al-Buldān 1/368; al-Kattānī: Fihris al-Fahāris 2/1099.
6 Miḍmār al-Khalāʾiq wa Sirr al-Khalāʾiq 1/54.
7 A village which is situated on the eastern side of the Algerian Masīlah, about 30 km away from
it. Muʿjam al-Buldān 5/175; Ibn Nāṣir: Tawḍīḥ al-Mushtabih 8/245; al-Rawḍ al-Miʿṭār fī Khabar al-Aqṭār p.
556.
8 Miḍmār al-Khalāʾiq wa Sirr al-Khalāʾiq 1/54.
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