Atlas · space × time · الأمصار عبر القرون

The centers of transmission, century by century مراكز الرواية

Where and when the narrators lived — origin region (from البلدان/nisba) against death-century (AH), for the 0 narrators who carry both. Read down a column to see who led each century; read across a row to watch a region rise and fade. Every count is a deterministic reading of the source — click a cell for the names.

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Death-century is parsed from the narrator's recorded death year (AH); ~29% of narrators carry one. A narrator with a region but no death year is counted in the geography lens but not here. The 10th c. AH onward is folded out (negligible counts). This is descriptive of the corpus we hold, not a census of all transmitters. ← regions overview