Uwāl - أُوال
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“The largest island (Uwāl or Awāl in the older Arabic sources; now called al-Baḥrayn) is about 30 miles long and 12 miles at its greatest breadth.” 4
Place Type
island
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 26.233137° Long. 50.520036°5
- Within Beth Qaṭraye.
Descriptions
“أوال : بالضم، ويروى بالفتح : جزيرة يحيط بها البحر بناحية البحرين، فيها نخل كثير وليمون وبساتين” 2
“وجزيرة أوال وفيها بنو معن وبنو مسمار وخلائق كثيرة من العرب، بينها وبين مدن ساحل البحرين نحو يوم بل أقل من ذلك” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 al-Masūdī, Murūj al-Dhahab, vol: 1, pp: 129.
- 2 Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Rūmī Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: 1, pp: 274.
- 3 Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī, Kitāb al-Masālik wa al-mamālik, vol: 1, pp: 371.
- 4 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 5 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/932485," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
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“Uwāl - أُوال .” 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/5510.About this Entry
Entry Title: Uwāl - أُوال
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- Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
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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
- Al-Masūdī data collection by Haya Al Thani
- Yaqūt b. ʿAbdallah al-Ḥamawī data collection by Saif al-Murikhi
- al-Bakri 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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