Najd - نجد

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The Najd is conventionally defined as the plateau region of the Arabian peninsula lying to the east of the Red Sea lowlands (al-Tihāma [q.v.]) and the mountain barrier running down through the western side of the peninsula (al-Ḥid̲j̲āz [q.v.]).3

Names

  • نجد1
  • Najd

Place Type

region

Descriptions

ثم رحلنا إلى ماء يعرف بالقارورة، وهي مصانع مملوءة بماء المطر مما صنعته زبيدة ابنة جعفر رحمها الله ونفعها وهذا الموضع هو وسط أرض نجد5
ثم رحلنا من وادي العروس ودخلنا أرض نجد، وهو بسيط من الأرض على مد البصر4
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    • 1 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 185, 186.
    • 2 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 203, 204.
    • 3 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
    • 4 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 185.
    • 5 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 186.

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    • 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
    • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
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