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Al Iskandari,Nasr ibn Abd al-Rahman (d1165 )
Kitab Anhina wal Miyah wal Djibal wal
Athar wa nahwiha al madhkoura fil Akhbar
wal Achar ( Book of places, waters, mountains, monuments…)
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Taken from: masaha.org/book/view/4546    الأمكنة والمياه والجبال والآثار ونحوها المذكورة في الأخبار والآثار by           نصر بن عبد الرحمن الإسكندري

 Mecca and surrounding mountains.

 

Vol 1 p247

Bab Thabir wa Srar

Thaber: A huge mountain between Arafah (1) and Makkah, and this name has it and it has three mountains that cross it, and each one has a characteristic that distinguishes it. Thaber Ghina: It has a few heads. And the humpback thaber, the al-A'araj thaber, the male Wakaa al-thaber: Thaber Guena, and the Zinj thaber, because the Zinj used to play out there, the green thaber, and the al-Nasa thaber ……

Note: At least the following authors have the story of the mountain Thabir or Thabyr or Thaber of the Zanj.

(see my webpages): Ahmad al-Azraqi 858; Al Fakihi 883; Al Iskandari 1165; Abu Bakr Al-Hazimi 1188; Yakut al Hamawi 1220; Muhammad al Fasi, Maliki 1430; Ibn Dhahirah 1457.

 

Vol 2 p123

Shaqar (2) .......... ......... it is also a place of the Zandj from where a certain kind of people is exported which is very much sought after.

 

(1) Arafah: Mount Arafat, also known by its Arabic name Jabal Arafat, and by its other Arabic name, Jabal ar-Rahmah, is a granodiorite hill about 20 km southeast of Mecca.

(2) Ibn Majid (1470) mentions Ras Shaka as Chika and also as Chikala. Also found at Yakut (1220) as Chouqar; Al Iskandari (1165) as Shaqar; Ibn Nasir al-din (1438) as Shuqran.