Arawān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Arawān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Stewart, Charles C.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060671
Doc. NO	:	ALei1068
Main Entry	:	Stewart, Charles C.
Title & Author	:	Arawān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Stewart, Charles C.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(659 words)
Abstract	:	Arawān (Araouane, Arouanne) was a southern entrepôt for the Saharan trade, located 243 kilometres (151 miles) north of Timbuktu (Timbuktū, Tunbuktū), in the region known as the Azawād (Azaouad), in present-day Mali. Reputedly founded c. 983/1575 by a Berber holy man from Tādamakkat (al-Sūq), Aḥmad agg Adda, the town became home to a small number of Islamic scholars from the late tenth/sixteenth century onwards. The commercial fortunes of Arawān were based on its water wells located at a crossroads of caravan traffic in the southern Sahara.
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1068.pdf