al-Shuqūq - الشقوق
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A town in the north of the Arabian Peninsula south of Zubāla. The town is part of the Darb Zubayda, the famous pilgrim highway from al-ʿIrāq to Ḥijāz.
Names
- الشقوق1
- al-Shuqūq
Place Type
settlement
See Also
Works Cited
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- 1 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 208.
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Tobias Scheunchen, “al-Shuqūq - الشقوق .” 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/5128.About this Entry
Entry Title: al-Shuqūq - الشقوق
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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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- 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
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