al-Ṣafā - الصفا

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[A] mound at Mecca which now barely rises above level of the ground.4

Names

  • الصفا2
  • الصَّفَا
  • al-Ṣafā

Place Type

mountain

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 21.423611° Long. 39.827222°

Descriptions

الصفا : [...] ومنه الصفا والمروة : وهما جبلان بين بطحاء مكة والمسجد، أما الصفا فمكان مرتفع من جبل أبي قبيس بينه وبين المسجد الحرام عرض الوادي الذي هو طريق وسوق، ومن وقف على الصفا كان بحذاء الحجر الأسود والمشعر الحرام بين الصفا والمروة1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Rūmī Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: 3, pp: 411.
  • 2 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 133, 144, 152, 154, 155, 172, 176, 249.
  • 3 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 81, 91, 106-110, 115, 121, 130, 167.
  • 4 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition

How to Cite This Entry

Tobias Scheunchen, “al-Ṣafā - الصفا ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5109.

Bibliography:

Tobias Scheunchen, “al-Ṣafā - الصفا .” 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/5109.

About this Entry

Entry Title: al-Ṣafā - الصفا

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-Ṣafā - الصفا

Additional Credit:

  • Research on coordinates by Tobias Scheunchen
  • 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
  • Yaqūt b. ʿAbdallah al-Ḥamawī data collection by Saif al-Murikhi
  • Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • 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

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