Geographic origin · الجغرافيا
Where the scholars are from من أين الرواة والمؤلّفون
Narrators and book-authors grouped by historical region — the classical amṣār — with a modern-country hint. Each attribution is read straight off the source البلدان/nisba, never guessed. 0 of 0 narrators carry a placeable origin (0 authors); 0 have a tribal-only nisba or none, and stay unplaced by design.
narrators
book-authors
1
al-Ḥijāzالحجاز
Saudi Arabia
2
al-Yamanاليمن
Yemen
3
al-ʿIrāqالعراق
Iraq
4
al-Jazīraالجزيرة
N. Iraq · SE Türkiye
5
al-Shāmالشام
Syria · Lebanon · Palestine · Jordan
6
al-Thughūrالثغور وبلاد الروم
S. Türkiye (Byzantine frontier)
7
Miṣrمصر
Egypt
8
al-Maghrib wa-Ifrīqiyaالمغرب وإفريقية
Tunisia · Algeria · Morocco · Libya
9
al-Andalusالأندلس
Spain · Portugal
10
al-Jibāl wa-Fārisالجبال وفارس
W. & S. Iran
11
Ṭabaristān wa-Jurjānطبرستان وجرجان
N. Iran (Caspian)
12
Khurāsānخراسان
NE Iran · Afghanistan · Turkmenistan
13
Mā warāʾ al-Nahrما وراء النهر
Uzbekistan · Tajikistan
Regions follow the classical geography of the amṣār; a narrator's region is taken from the explicit البلدان field where present, otherwise from a geographic nisba. Tribal and ambiguous nisbas are deliberately left unplaced — a tribe is not a place.