Ḥuwār - حوار
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A region in Baḥrain that is part of Hajar and was conquered by Ziyād b. ʿAmrū b. al-Mandhur b. ʿAṣar.
Place Type
region
Location
- Within Beth Qaṭraye.
Descriptions
“حوارين : [...] بلدة بالبحرين افتتحها زياد فكان يقال له زياد حوارين، وهو زياد ابن عمرو بن المنذر بن عصر وأخوه خلاس بن عمرو، وكان فقيها من أصحاب علي، رضي الله عنه؛ قاله السمعاني، وقال الحفصي : حوارين، بلفظ التثنية وكسر أوله، والجيار قريتان بالبحرين، كأنه ضم الجيار إلى حوار وسماهما حوارين نحو قولهم القمران” 2
“وحوار : ناحية من نواحي هجر؛ ويقال لها حوارين أيضا كما نذكره بعد.” 1
See Also
Works Cited
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- 1 Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Rūmī Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: 2, pp: 314.
- 2 Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Rūmī Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: 2, pp: 315.
- 3 Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī, Kitāb al-Masālik wa al-mamālik, vol: 1, pp: 371.
How to Cite This Entry
Tobias Scheunchen, “Ḥuwār - حوار
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Bibliography:
Tobias Scheunchen, “Ḥuwār - حوار .” 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/5313.About this Entry
Entry Title: Ḥuwār - حوار
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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
- Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributor, “Ḥuwār - حوار ”
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
- Yaqūt b. ʿAbdallah al-Ḥamawī data collection by Saif al-Murikhi
- al-Bakri data collection by Saif al-Murikhi
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
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