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    Mahdia (redirect from Al-Mahdiyya)
    Mahdia (Arabic: المهدية al-Mahdīyah) is a Tunisian coastal city with 76,513 inhabitants, south of Monastir and southeast of Sousse. Mahdia is a provincial...
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    of al-Mahdiyya was established as the capital. In 948, they shifted their capital to al-Mansuriyya, near Kairouan. In 969, during the reign of al-Mu'izz...
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  • of Cairo popular culture through personalities such as Rose Al-Youssef, Mounira al-Mahdiyya and Oum Kalthoum. He is the son of Robin Cormack and historian...
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    The Mahdist War (Arabic: الثورة المهدية, romanized: ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin...
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  • ensemble of Salama Hegazi and when he became ill, she sang his role in Salah al-Din al-Ayubi, while dressed onstage as a man. Her first recording was in 1906...
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  • 916 and 921, al-Mahdi built a new residence, the fortified palace city of Mahdiyya, on a rocky promontory on the Ifriqiyan coast. When Al-Mahdi died in...
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  • Mahdist Sudan Mehdya, a city in Morocco Mahdiyya or al-Mahdiyya may refer to: The Fatimid caliphate of Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (909–934) Mahdist Sudan (1885–1899)...
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    Salé, and founded an adjacent settlement. Naming the new fortress al-Mahdiyya or Ribat al-Fath, he intended to use it as a staging point for future campaigns...
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    shipped by caravan across the Sahara to Kairouan (Qayrawan) and Mahdia (al-Mahdiyya), and cloth manufactured of Egyptian and local flax or cotton imported...
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    most of its cities, sparing only the Mediterranean coastal strip at al-Mahdiyya, and deeply weakened the neighboring Hammadid dynasty and the Zenata...
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    caliph Yaqub al-Mansur (ruled 1184–1199) embarked on a huge project to construct a new fortified imperial capital, called al-Mahdiyya or Ribat al-Fath, on...
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    decision to construct a new fortified imperial capital, called al-Mahdiyya or Ribat al-Fath, on the site of what is now the medina (old city) of Rabat...
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  • The author also speaks about Slavs and their lifestyle and mentions al-Mahdiyya as the residence of the Fatimid dynasty. Therefore, the book is older...
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    project to construct a new fortified imperial capital, called al-Mahdiyya or Ribat al-Fath, on the site of what is now the medina (old city) of Rabat...
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    most of its cities, sparing only the Mediterranean coastal strip at al-Mahdiyya, and deeply weakened the neighboring Hammadid dynasty and the Zenata...
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    5 October 2014. M. Talbi (2012). “al-Mahdiyya”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Ed. P. Bearman, et al. Abela, Joe. "Claude de la Sengle (1494–1557)"...
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    chosen along the coast and construction of the new fortified palace city, al-Mahdiyya (Mahdia), began in 916. Construction of the Great Mosque, which served...
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    apocalyptic event foreseen by al-Mahdi, for which purpose he had constructed al-Mahdiyya, "as a refuge for the dynasty from the great enemy, and a citadel from...
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    of the Mahdiyya had been central to the belief of the Samaniyya prior to Muhammad Ahmad's pronouncement. The previous Samaniyya leader, Sheikh al-Qurashi...
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    34°15′51″N 006°39′27″W / 34.26417°N 6.65750°W / 34.26417; -6.65750 Kasbah Mahdiyya (also written as Mehdya, Mehdia, Mahdiya), or Kasbah of Kenitra, (Arabic:...
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    an apocalyptic event that had been foreseen by al-Mahdi, for which purpose he had constructed al-Mahdiyya, "as a refuge for the dynasty from the great enemy...
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    eventually collaborated with the Queen of Stages, singer and actress Munîra al-Mahdiyya (1884–1965), for whom he composed comic operettas such as "kullaha yawmayn"...
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  • most of its cities, sparing only the Mediterranean coastal strip at al-Mahdiyya, and deeply weakened the neighboring Hammadid dynasty and the Zenata...
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  • Imadaddin Idris; Sunni sources report 30 ships) on 22 June 934 from al-Mahdiyya. Sailing from a western direction, he encountered some Christian merchant...
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  • Appleton Company. M. Talbi (2012). “al-Mahdiyya”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Ed. P. Bearman, et al. Badger, George Percy (1838). Description...
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    Wahab, and Riad Al Sunbati. She was featured at the first issue of the Rose al-Yūsuf magazine published in 1925 along with Munîra al-Mahdiyya and Umm Kulthum...
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  • al-Muʿizz fled al-Qayrawān for al-Mahdiyya in the face of the Hilālī invasion, Ibn Sharaf accompanied him. For a short time he joined the court of al-Muʿizz's...
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  • In another, al-Jawharī wrote that he had followed Ibn 'Awkal's instructions to "use the proceeds from the sale of flax at the al-Mahdiyya fair to buy...
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  • zirid ruler al-Hasan ibn Ali since he said that he had consulted a book of the library of this sultan. In 1148, the city of al-Mahdiyya was captured...
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  • a.nrme.net. Retrieved 2021-05-07. Host, P. M. "Muḥammad Sa'Ĩd Al-Qaddāl: al-Mahdiyya wa 'l-Ḥabasha". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies...
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