Ḥawrān — ܚܘܪܢ
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A “region of southern
Syria bounded to the east by the volcanic massif of the D̲j̲abal al-Durūz,
to the north by the plateau of the Lad̲j̲āʾ and the Damascus plain, to the
west by D̲j̲awlān [q.v.] and to the south by the Yarmūk, a region which |
corresponds roughly to the administrative area, or liwāʾ , of the same name
and which extends for about 100 kilometres from north to south and 75 from
east to west.” 9
Place Type
region
Location
- Coordinates
(representative):
- Lat. 32.75° Long. 36.25°6
Descriptions
“ثم ارتحلنا منها إلى بلدة زرعة وهي صغيرة من بلاد حوران نزلنا بالقرب منها ثم ارتحلنا إلى مدينة بُصرى، وهي صغيرة ومن عادة الركب أن يقيم بها أربعا ليلحق بهم من تخلف بدمشق لقضاء مآربه - وإلى بُصرى وصل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قبل البعث في تجارة خديجة، وبها مبرك ناقته قد بنى عليه مسجد عظيم” 8
A region south of Damascus and east of the
Sea of Galilee.
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"Hauran" in WikipediaWorks Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 86, 425, map: Map II A2.
- 2 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 537.
- 3 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 505.
- 4 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 552.
- 5 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Hawran.
- 6 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678041," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: II, pp: 364.
- 8 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 125, 126.
- 9 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
How to Cite This Entry
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Ḥawrān — ܚܘܪܢ .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/214.About this Entry
Entry Title: Ḥawrān — ܚܘܪܢ
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- Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
- Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
- Thomas A. Carlson and David A. Michelson, entry contributors, “Ḥawrān — ܚܘܪܢ ”
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- Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson