- See Al-Maris (suburb) for the suburb of the same name.
Al-Maris was a
Medieval Arabic name for
Lower Nubia, the region of the
Nile around the first and second
cataracts, including
Aswan. Because most of the sources for Nubian history during the period are in Arabic, it is sometimes used interchangeably with the
Nubian region of
Nobadia. The northern section of al-Maris was part of
Fatimid Upper Egypt and was semi-independent under the
Kanz ad-Dawla between 1046 and 1077 AD. The Kanz ad-Dawla Nasir invaded Nubia in 1066 but was repulsed and his territory raided.