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Ibn Sulaym al-Aswani
Ibn Sulaym al-Aswani was a 10th-century Egyptian official and writer, sent around 969 by the Fatimid commander Jawhar as envoy to the Christian king of Makuria. His History of Nubia, now lost but quoted by later authors such as al-Maqrizi, is the main surviving description of medieval Nubia, including Makuria, Alodia and its capital Soba.
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