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al-Yamāma - اليمامة

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“[A]t the present time a town in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia about 70 km/45 miles south-east of the capital al-Riyāḍ [q.v.] and situated in the region of al-K̲h̲ard̲j̲ within the al-Riyāḍ emirate, close to Maḥaṭṭat al-K̲h̲ard̲j̲ on the al-Riyāḍ to al-Ẓahrān (Dhahran) railway [...].” 2

Names

  • اليمامة1
  • حجر1
  • al-Yamāma
  • Ḥajr

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 24.1799096° Long. 46.7549995°3
  • Within Beth Qaṭraye.

Descriptions

“ثم سافرنا منها إلى مدينة اليمامة وتسمى أيضا بحجر (بفتح الحاء المهمل واسكان الجيم) مدينة حسنة خصبة ذات أنهار وأشجار، يسكنها طوائف من العرب، من بني حنيفة، وهي بلدهم قديماً، وأميرهم طفيل بن غانم.” 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: 288.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Andrew Lookingbill and Ethan Russell (eds.), "https://goo.gl/maps/G9meAo9ZXmvdNrQCA," Google Maps

How to Cite This Entry

“al-Yamāma - اليمامة ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5145.

Bibliography:

“al-Yamāma - اليمامة .” 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/5145.

About this Entry

Entry Title: al-Yamāma - اليمامة

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
  • , entry contributor, “al-Yamāma - اليمامة ”

Additional Credit:

  • 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
  • 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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