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The Dissipater of Anxieties on the Reports of the Ayyubids by Ibn Wasil

Mufarridi al-kurub fi akhbar Bani Ayyub by Ibn Wāṣil

Aliases
Aliases Arabic
Ibn Wāṣil
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sālim ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sālim ibn Wāṣil
Background and Biography
Background and Biography

Excerpts
English from Guidoboni and Comastri (2005)

There was a violent earthquake which affected most regions of Egypt and Syria, Gazira [the Arabian peninsula], Bilad al-Rum [Byzantine territories], Sicily, Cyprus, Mosul, and Iraq; and they say it reached Sibtat [Ceuta] on the far side of the Maghreb [in Morocco].

Chronology
Date Reference Corrections Notes
10 Sept. 1203 CE to 28 Aug. 1204 CE A.H. 600 none
Seismic Effects
  • a violent earthquake which affected most regions of Egypt and Syria, Gazira, Bilad al-Rum [Byzantine territories], Sicily, Cyprus, Mosul, and Iraq
  • they say it reached Sibtat [Ceuta] on the far side of the Maghreb [in Morocco]
Locations mentioned
  • Egypt
  • Syria
  • Jazira
  • Bilad al-Rum [Byzantine territories]
  • Sicily
  • Cyprus
  • Mosul
  • Iraq
  • they say it reached Sibtat [Ceuta, Morocco]
Online Versions and Further Reading
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