al-Qaḥma - القحمة

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A town in the southwest of the Arabian Peninsula close to Abhā.

Names

القحمة1
al-Qaḥma

Place Type

settlement

Descriptions

“وليس بالأرض من يماثلهم في ذلك إلّا الشيخ بدر الدين النقّاس الساكن ببلدة القحمة، فله مثل ذلك من المآثر والإيثار. وأقمنا بالسّرجة ليلة واحدة في ضيافة المذكورين، ثمّ رحلنا إلى مرسى الحادث” 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: 256.

How to Cite This Entry

Tobias Scheunchen, “al-Qaḥma - القحمة ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5088.

Bibliography:

Tobias Scheunchen, “al-Qaḥma - القحمة .” 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/5088.

About this Entry

Entry Title: al-Qaḥma - القحمة

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
Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributor, “al-Qaḥma - القحمة ”

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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