Zamzam - زمزم

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[T]he sacred well located at the perimeter of the sacred complex of Mecca. It is situated to the east of the Kaʿba [ q.v.] alongside the wall where the "Black Stone", al-ḥad̲j̲ar al-aswad , is enshrined, a little further from the centre than the maḳām Ibrāhīm [ q.v.], the "station of Abraham". The well is currently a subterranean arrangement, also opening towards the east.2

Names

  • زمزم1
  • Zamzam

Place Type

building

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 21.4059842° Long. 39.8074043°3
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 23, 81, 84, 88, 89, 90, 98, 100, 101, 103, 123, 124, 127, 138-141.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Andrew Lookingbill and Ethan Russell (eds.), "https://goo.gl/maps/EACi1QdptcHre1LK9," Google Maps

How to Cite This Entry

Zamzam - زمزم ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5530.

Bibliography:

Zamzam - زمزم .” 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/5530.

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Entry Title: Zamzam - زمزم

Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:

  • 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
  • , entry contributor, “Zamzam - زمزم

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 Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Jubayr 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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