Hajar - هَجَرُ
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A province (bilād) whose adminstrative center (qaṣaba) is al-Ṣafā.
Names
- هجر1
- هَجَرُ
- Hajar
Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“وقال قوم : هجر بلاد قصبتها الصفا، وقد ذكرت في موضعها، بينها وبين اليمامة عشرة أيام، وبينها وبين البصرة خمسة عشر يوما على الإبل، وقد ذكر قوم من أهل الأدب أن هجر لا تدخله الألف واللام [...]” 1
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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: 5, pp: 393.
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Tobias Scheunchen, “Hajar - هَجَرُ
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Tobias Scheunchen, “Hajar - هَجَرُ .” 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/5291.About this Entry
Entry Title: Hajar - هَجَرُ
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- 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
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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
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- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
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