- centuries, all of
Mauritania was
commonly known in the Arab
world as
Bilad Shinqit, "the land of Chinguetti." It is
sometimes said to be the seventh-most...
-
Greater Mauritania (Arabic: موريتانيا الكبرى) is a term for the
Mauritanian irredentist claim that
generally includes the
Western Sahara and
other Sahrawi-po****ted...
-
Ansar Al-Sharia fi
Bilad Shinqit (Arabic: أنصار الشريعة في بلاد شنقيط, romanized: anṣār aš-šarīʿah fī bilād Šinqīṭ, lit. 'Partisans of
Islamic Law in...
- geographical,
literary and
historical compendium Al-Wasit fi tarájim
udaba al-
Shinqit, ed. Fuad Sayyid,
Cairo 1958. The
survey is the only
major Arabic-language...
- The
Chinguetti Mosque (Arabic: مسجد شنقيط, romanized: Masjid
Shinqīṭ), also
known as the
Chinguetti Great Mosque, is a ****
Islam mosque in Chinguetti...
- neutral, and
others supported the Beni H****an, with a
Zawaya scholar from
Shinqit issuing a
fatwa against Nasr,
stating that he was not a
Caliph and had...
- in
Senegal and also used the
opportunity to
appoint his own
governor in
Shinqit (Chinguetti).: 232
Despite this re****ertion of control, trans-Saharan...
-
remained neutral, and
others supported the H****an, with a
Zawaya scholar from
Shinqit issuing a
fatwa against Nasr,
stating that he was not a
Caliph and had...
-
Mauritanian poets". He was the
grandson of Abd-Allah al-Qadi (also
known as Qadi
Shinqit). A
short biography of Ibn
Razqa is
contained in the
beginning of Al-Wasit...
