al-Yamāma
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A region in eastern Arabia.
Place Type
region
Location
- Coordinates
(representative):
- Lat. 24.17257° Long. 48.44725°
- Within Beth Qaṭraye.
Descriptions
“وكذلك عامة اليمن الا شيا بين عمان واليمامة مما يلي
البحر الى حدود اليمن” 4
“In early Islamic times
al-Yamāma was a region of Nad̲j̲d [q.v.] with its centre Ḥad̲j̲r.” 5
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"Al-Yamama" 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: 72.
- 2 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 237.
- 3 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 60.
- 4 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 287.
- 5 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 6 Nāṣir Khusraw, Safar Nāma, pp: 158.
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, “al-Yamāma” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2920.
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Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson, “al-Yamāma.” 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/2920.About this Entry
Entry Title: al-Yamāma
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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, entry contributor, “al-Yamāma”
Additional Credit:
- 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 Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- al-Yaʿqūbī data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
- Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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