al-ʿAmāra - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-ʿAmāra - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Heine, Peter

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060326
Doc. NO	:	ALei723
Main Entry	:	Heine, Peter
Title & Author	:	al-ʿAmāra - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Heine, Peter
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(424 words)
Abstract	:	Al-ʿAmāra is a city and administrative unit in southern Iraq, north of the province of Basra on the river Tigris, in an area that has been inhabited since pre-Islamic times. The area is now inhabited by the tribes of the Maʿdan, who have developed their own material culture on the basis of the reed that grows in the marshes of the region. During the 1990s the Baʿth regime drained the marshes and, as a consequence, the typical reed culture of the Maʿdan was destroyed. The majority of the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei723.pdf