Sharāf - شَرَاف
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A town between Wāqiṣa and al-Qirʿāʾ about eight miles from al-Aḥsāʾ (al-Ḥasa).
Names
- شراف1
- شَرَاف
- Sharāf
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Within Beth Qaṭraye.
Descriptions
“وقال أبو عبيد السكوني : شراف بين واقصة والقرعاء على ثمانية أميال من الأحساء التي لبني وهب، ومن شراف إلى واقصة ميلان، وهناك بركة تعريف باللوزة، وفي شراف ثلاث آبار كبار رشاؤها أقل من عشرين قامة وماؤها عذب كثير وبها قلب كبيرة [كثيرة] طيبة الماء يدخلها ماء المطر، وقيل : شراف استنبطه رجل من العماليق اسمه شراف فسمي به، وقال الكلبي شراف وواقصة ابنتا عمرو بن معتق بن زمرة بن عبيل ابن عوض بن إرم بن سام بن نوح، عليه السلام [...]” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Rūmī Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: 3, pp: 331.
How to Cite This Entry
Tobias Scheunchen, “Sharāf - شَرَاف
” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5462.
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Bibliography:
Tobias Scheunchen, “Sharāf - شَرَاف .” 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/5462.About this Entry
Entry Title: Sharāf - شَرَاف
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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, “Sharāf - شَرَاف ”
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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
- Yaqūt b. ʿAbdallah al-Ḥamawī 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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