al-Juhfa - الجحفة
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A city north of Mecca serving as mīqāt for pilgrims from Shām, Miṣr, and the Maghrib.
Names
- الجحفة1
- al-Juhfa
Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“ورحلنا من بدر إلى الصحراء المعروفة بقاع البزواء، وهي برية يضل بها الدليل، ويذهل عن خليله الخليل. مسيرة ثلاث وفي منتهاها وادي رابغ، يتكون فيه بالمطر غدراناً يبقى بها الماء زمانا طويلا، ومنه يحرم حجاج مصر والمغرب، وهو دون الجحفة” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 143.
How to Cite This Entry
Tobias Scheunchen, “al-Juhfa - الجحفة
” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5048.
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Tobias Scheunchen, “al-Juhfa - الجحفة .” 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/5048.About this Entry
Entry Title: al-Juhfa - الجحفة
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- Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
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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 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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