Maʿān - معان
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“[A] town of the south of Jordan, lying in lat. 30° 12′ N. and long. 35° 44′ E. at an altitude of 3,523 ft./1,074 m., and the chef-lieu of the governorate which is to the south of the Karak [q.v.] one and to the east of the Wādī ʿAraba. The name is said to come from Maʿān, son of Lot.” 2
Names
- معان1
- Maʿān
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 30.33333° Long. 36.58333°3
Descriptions
“ثم ارتحلنا الى معان، وهو آخر بلاد الشام” 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: 126.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Deutsches Archäologisches Institute, "http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2289339," iDAI.gazetteer
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“Maʿān - معان .” 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/5386.About this Entry
Entry Title: Maʿān - معان
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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 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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