GeoHadith / Places

Centres of learning.

From al-Andalus to Transoxiana, one gazetteer that gathers every spelling found in the data. Counts show the scholars whose main centre of learning the place was.

All Anatolia and the Balkans 2Jibāl and Iran 37Hijaz 2Khurasan and Transoxiana 33Iraq and al-Jazira 24The Maghrib and al-Andalus 35Egypt 20Syria (al-Shām) 24Yemen 2 Regions / climes

24 places

  1. Baghdad بغداد Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Baghdad 2,931
  2. Basra البصرة Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · az-Zubayr (old Basra) 175
  3. Wasit واسط Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Wasit ruins 158
  4. Kufa الكوفة Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Kufa 135
  5. Mosul الموصل Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) · Mosul 98
  6. Ukbara عكبرا Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Ukbara ruins 53
  7. al-Anbar الأنبار Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · near Fallujah 48
  8. Harran حران Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) · Harran 31
  9. Raqqa الرقة Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) · Raqqa 29
  10. Samarra سامراء (سر من رأى) Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Samarra 23
  11. al-Karkh الكرخ Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Karkh (Baghdad) 18
  12. Mayyafariqin ميافارقين Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) · Silvan 13
  13. Amid آمد Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) · Diyarbakır 13
  14. Hulwan حلوان Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Sarpol-e Zahab 12
  15. Tikrit تكريت Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Tikrit 10
  16. Nisibis نصيبين Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) · Nusaybin 9
  17. Irbil إربل Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) · Erbil 7
  18. al-Madaʾin (Ctesiphon) المدائن Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Salman Pak 7
  19. Nahrawan النهروان Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · east of Baghdad 6
  20. Hit هيت Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Hit 5
  21. Nahr al-Saymari (Basra) نهر الصيمري Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Basra region 2
  22. al-Hilla الحلة Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · Hillah 1
  23. Sarifin صريفين Iraq (al-ʿIraq) · near Ukbara (Dujayl) 1
  24. Sinjar سنجار Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) · Sinjar 1