Ḥaṭṭa - الخط
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
(preferred):
- Lat. 26.612985° Long. 49.983804°10
- Coordinates
(alternate):
- Lat. 26.6° Long. 49.9°
- Within Beth Qaṭraye.
- A city located seven farsakh north of al-Aḥsāʾ in al-Baḥrayn.6
Descriptions
Attestations
Attestation of name الخط in the Kitāb al-masālik wa-l-mamālik of Abuʾl-Qāsim Ibn Khurradādhbih.
الخط2, 3, 4, 9 2Attestation of name القطيف in the Kitāb al-masālik wa-l-mamālik of Abuʾl-Qāsim Ibn Khurradādhbih.
القطيف2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 2Attestation of name الخط in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī Ibn al-Faqīh.
الخط2, 3, 4, 9 3Attestation of name القطيف in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī Ibn al-Faqīh.
القطيف2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 3Notes
Works Cited
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- 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 73.
- 2 Abuʾl-Qāsim Ibn Khurradādhbih, Kitāb al-masālik wa-l-mamālik, pp: 152, 249.
- 3 Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī Ibn al-Faqīh, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 30.
- 4 Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad Jarīr al-Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk, pp: 820, 839.
- 5 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 240.
- 6 Nāṣir Khusraw, Safar Nāma, pp: 161.
- 7 Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī, Kitāb al-Masālik wa al-mamālik, vol: 1, pp: 371.
- 8 Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Rūmī Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: 4, pp: 378.
- 9 al-Masūdī, Murūj al-Dhahab, vol: 1, pp: 129.
- 10 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/932479," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 11 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 240.
How to Cite This Entry
Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Ḥaṭṭa - الخط .” 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/4156.About this Entry
Entry Title: Ḥaṭṭa - الخط
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, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
- Thomas A. Carlson and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Ḥaṭṭa - الخط ”
Additional Credit:
- Research on coordinates 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
- al-Tabari data collection by Haya Al Thani
- Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Ibn Khurradadhbih data collection by Haya Al Thani
- Ibn Khurradadhbih data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
- Ibn al-Faqih data collection by Saif al-Murikhi
- Ibn al-Faqih data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
- Al-Masūdī data collection by Haya Al Thani
- Yaqūt b. ʿAbdallah al-Ḥamawī data collection by Saif al-Murikhi
- al-Bakri data collection by Saif al-Murikhi
- Nasir Khusraw data collection by Saif al-Murikhi
- 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
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