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al-Ḥijāz

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A region in western Arabia, containing Mecca and Medina.

Names

  • الحجاز2, 3, 4, 5
  • al-Ḥijāz
  • Ḥijāz1

Place Type

region

Attestations

Attestation of name الحجاز in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī.

الحجاز2, 3, 4, 5 2

Attestation of name الحجاز in the Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa of Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah.

الحجاز2, 3, 4, 5 3
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Works Cited

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  • 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 220.
  • 2 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 236.
  • 3 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 60.
  • 4 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 35, 36, 41, 65, 97, 111, 115, 167, 193, 203, 209, 214, 266, 307, 327, 331, 540, 668.
  • 5 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 8, 14, 19, 29, 56, 73.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “al-Ḥijāz” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2921.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “al-Ḥijāz.” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, Mario Kozah and Thomas A. Carlson. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2921.

About this Entry

Entry Title: al-Ḥijāz

Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:

  • Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
  • Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, Mario Kozah, and Thomas A. Carlson, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
  • Thomas A. Carlson and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “al-Ḥijāz”

Additional Credit:

  • 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 Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
  • Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
  • Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Rustah 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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