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Al-Muwaqqar Latitude and Longitude:

31°48′56″N 36°5′39″E / 31.81556°N 36.09417°E / 31.81556; 36.09417
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Al-Muwaqqar
الموقر
District
Location of district in Amman
Location of district in Amman
Coordinates: 31°48′56″N 36°5′39″E / 31.81556°N 36.09417°E / 31.81556; 36.09417
Country Jordan
Governorate Amman Governorate
Time zone UTC + 2

Al-Muwaqqar ( Arabic: الموقر) is a district in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan. [1] The village contains the scant ruins of an Umayyad palace, the Qasr al-Muwaqqar, one of the desert castles. Little remains of the palace today except several acanthus leaf capitals and gauge of a water reservoir. [2]

The district is the headquarters of the 3rd Armored Division and a police training center. Most of the families which are staying in the region are from Bani Sakhr, like Al-Khraisha, Al-Arabid, Al-Jbour, Al-Qudahh.

Archaeology: Qasr al-Muwaqqar

The village of contains the ruins of an Umayyad complex, the Qasr al-Muwaqqar, a qasr-type fortified palace also known as a desert castle. Almost nothing remains of the palace today except several acanthus-leaf capitals and [2] a water level gauge for a palace cistern, inscribed with Kufic signs which indicate a maximum level of over thirty feet (c. 10 metres), very impressive for the arid climate of the area. [3]

Two distinct qusur, Muwaqqar and Mushash

Despite some name confusion, which combined the two names into one, the following are two distinct Umayyad sites which contain qusur (plural of qasr): al-Muwaqqar and Qasr al-Mushash. [4] They lay 19.4 km apart on the historical caravan route between Amman and Azraq via Qusayr 'Amra, on which all these localities acted as way stations. [4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Maplandia world gazetteer
  2. ^ a b Al-Muwaqqar at AtlasTours.net
  3. ^ Jordan's Desert Castles, Aramco World magazine, March 1963, pp. 10-13 (see p. 11)
  4. ^ a b Bartl, Karin (2016). McPhillips, Stephen; Wordsworth, Paul D. (eds.). Water management in desert regions: Early Islamic Qasr Mushash. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 50-68 [see p. 63]. ISBN  9780812292763. Retrieved 19 July 2019. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)

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