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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 12737 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.

fewer more narrators
region 1c2c3c4c5c6c7c8c9c total
al-ʿIrāqالعراق 212 716 1420 911 546 435 290 29 2 4561
al-Shāmالشام 90 154 300 340 297 182 402 496 83 2344
Khurāsānخراسان 2 33 243 383 271 342 23 1 · 1298
al-Jibāl wa-Fārisالجبال وفارس · 21 214 264 266 285 67 13 · 1130
Miṣrمصر 35 124 239 199 91 47 162 124 43 1064
al-Ḥijāzالحجاز 288 391 123 52 29 11 22 17 14 947
al-Andalusالأندلس · 6 23 106 86 132 52 11 2 418
al-Jazīraالجزيرة 3 53 110 21 16 28 44 39 1 315
Mā warāʾ al-Nahrما وراء النهر · 6 77 63 34 33 12 · · 225
Ṭabaristān wa-Jurjānطبرستان وجرجان · 2 37 65 26 23 5 3 · 161
al-Yamanاليمن 10 43 29 12 5 3 6 2 2 112
al-Maghrib wa-Ifrīqiyaالمغرب وإفريقية 1 9 12 13 7 20 13 9 4 88
al-Thughūrالثغور وبلاد الروم 1 4 42 17 5 3 1 1 · 74
per century 642156228692446167915441099745151 12737

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