Mahra - مهرة
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“[T]he boundaries of Mahra-land run in the west from the coast along Wādī Masīla, a continuation of Wādī Ḥaḍramawt, in the north-west along Wādī Ramāʾ as far as Ṣanāw, from there east-north-east, and reach via Anḍawr the north-eastern coast at Rās Ḥāsik, to the north of Ḥāsik, the ancient Mahra settlement.” 2
Names
- المهرة
- مهرة1
- al-Mahra
- Mahra
Place Type
region
Location
- Coordinates
(representative):
- Lat. 17° Long. 51.5°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 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://sws.geonames.org/78985," GeoNames
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“Mahra - مهرة .” 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/5361.About this Entry
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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 Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal 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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