Madyan - مدين
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“[A] town on the east side of
the Gulf of Akaba. The name is, connected with that of the tribe of Midianites known
from the Old Testament (lxx.: Μαδιαμ, Μαδιαν; in Josephus Μαδιηνίται, ή Μαδιηνὴ χωρα)
but it can hardly be used without further consideration to identify the original home of
this tribe, as the town might be a later Midianite settlement and besides it is
difficult to fix the real home of such wandering tribes.” 2
Names
- مدين1
- Madiane
- Madyan
- Midian
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 28.75° Long. 34.75°3
Descriptions
“ويحيط بها بحر فارس من عبادان وهو مصب ماء دجلة في البحر فيمتد
على البحرين حتى ينتهى الى عمان ثم يعطف على سواحل مهرة وحضرموت وعدن حتى ينتهى الى سواحل
اليمن الى جدة ثم يمتدعلى الجار ومدين حتى ينتهي الى أيلة” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
- 2 M. Th.Houtsma (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition
- 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746776," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
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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 Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
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