AL-ḤOMEJMA TO AL-ʻAḲABA
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to the peak of al-Ḳnêneṣijje, which shuts in the great plain of al-Moṛâr on the northwest.[1]
AL-ḲNÊNEṢIJJE TO AL-WARAḲA
At 2.30 P. M. we rode alongside the dark red rocks of aṭ-Ṭfejḥwât with their precipitous sides, admiring the groups
Fig. 23—Aẓ-Ẓjejḳe. of cleft cones of Sardân and Nurṛa. The latter are prominent by reason of their peculiar olive color, and, as they extend to the northward separating the large, level plains of Ḫawr
- ↑ The plain of al-Moṛâr is mentioned by Arabic authors as being in the territory of the Ǧuḏâm tribe.Al-Hamdâni (died 945 A.D.), Ṣifa (Müller), p. 129, states that the Ǧuḏâm tribe encamped between Madjan, Tebûk, and Aḏruḥ, one clan sojourning, however, in the vicinity of aṭ-Ṭabarijje (Tiberias). The same author mentions (op. cit., pp. 130 f.) that the territory of the Beli tribe borders on the territory of the Ǧuḏâm on the shore near the station of an-Nabk and that the Ǧuḏâm territory extends as far as ʻAjnûna’ and Tebûk in the desert, the aš-Šera’ range, Maʻân, and thence back again to Ajla, and farther on to within sight of al-Maṛâr, the place last mentioned being the encampment of the Laḫm tribe, who are also the owners of a strip of country between the settlements of Tebûk and Zoṛar.Al-Bekri, Muʻǧam (Wüstenfeld), p. 550, mentions the place al-Maʻin as being in the Ǧuḏâm territory. According to the poet Ḥassân ibn Ṯâbet, the camping places of the Ǧuḏâm are distributed between al-Maʻin, ʻAwd, Ṛazza, al-Marrût, al-Ḫabt, al-Muna’, and Bejt Zummâra’. The poet Mâlek ibn Ḥarîm mentions Mount ʻUrâd together with al-Maʻin.
