ʿAththar - عثر
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“The capital of the district and a seaport of importance. It was situated on the pilgrim road from Ṣanʿāʾ, between al-Had̲j̲ar (= Ḏj̲āzān) and Bayḍ, and is quoted already in the year 11/632 as belonging to the insurgent al-Aswad [q.v.].” 2
Names
- عثر1
- ʿAthr
- ʿAththar
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 17.1359166666667° Long. 42.4454444444444°3
Descriptions
“فقالت الفقهاء المصر كل بلد جامع يقام فيه الحدود ويحله امير ويقوم بنفسه ويجمع رستاقه مثل عثر ونابلس وزوزن” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 9.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 GeoHack, "https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=ar&pagename=مدينة_عثر¶ms=17_08_09.3_N_42_26_43.6_E_type:,"
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“ʿAththar - عثر .” 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/5552.About this Entry
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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-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī 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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