Asharaf or Axarafe is the olive-cultivating hilly region around the Guadiamar river located between Seville and Niebla in Andalusia .
6-500: Olive oil was a significant commodity in 16th century Seville, exported to "all the Kingdom, to the Indies, and to so many other parts of the world." Asharaf was one of its richest olive growing regions. There is evidence of speculators buying large quantities of "the oil of Axarafe", and "the wine and oil of Axarafe" are listed among the goods purchased by monopolists to export to the Indies. In
12-693: A compendium of the history of Al-Andalus which provided a basis for the scholarly research on the subject until the twentieth century. A native of Tlemcen and from a prominent intellectual family originally from the village of Maqqara , near M'sila in Algeria. After his early education in Tlemcen, al-Maqqari travelled to Fes in Morocco and then to Marrakesh , following the court of Ahmad al-Mansur . On al-Mansur's death in 1603, al-Maqqari established himself in Fes, where he
18-476: A translation of Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari by 19th century scholar Pascual de Gayangos y Arce , the author claims "much has been said of the land of Asharaf by various authors". The following description of the land of Asharaf is given by the author: "It surpasses in beauty and fertility every other spot on the face on the earth; that the oil of its olives is exported as far as Alexandria; that its hamlets and villages are much superior to those of other countries in
24-442: Is a young bride, her husand is 'Abbab; Her diadem is Asharaf; her necklace Guadakquivir Asharaf is a forest without wild beasts, Guadalquivir, a river without crocodiles." Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilmisānī (or al-Maḳḳarī ) ( أحمد المقري التلمساني ), (1577-1632) was an Algerian scholar, biographer and historian who is best known for his Nafh at-Tib [ ar ] ,
30-563: The extent and commodiousness, and the fine design and ornament, of their houses, which from the continual white-washing, look like so many stars in a sky of olive trees." From a poem addressed to the Sultan Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad : "Seville is a young bride; her husand is 'Abbád; Her diadem is Asharaf; her necklace the river." A similar poem appears in David Urquhart 's 19th century travel literature The Pillars of Hercules : "Seville
36-721: Was the imam of the Qarawiyyin Mosque . In 1617, he left for the East, possibly following a quarrel with the local ruler, and took up residence in Cairo , where he composed his best known work, Nafḥ al-ṭīb . In 1620, he visited Jerusalem and Damascus , and made five pilgrimages over six years. At Mecca and Medina he gave popular lectures on ḥadīth. In 1628, he was again in Damascus, where he continued his lectures on Muhammad al-Bukhari 's collection of Ḥadīth ('Traditions'), and spoke much of
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