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" Iram - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Webb, Peter
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AL
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English
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1062288
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ALei2685
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Webb, Peter
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Iram - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Webb, Peter
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,519 words)
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Iram is an ancient Arabian name most commonly associated in modern writing with a lost city in southeastern Arabia, the capital of the pre-Islamic people of ʿĀd, whom God destroyed for their disbelief (Cobb, 2:559; Clapp). The meaning of “Iram” has, however, undergone a complex evolution of varied and debated interpretations in both Muslim and European narratives. Pre-Islamic Nabatean epigraphy uses ʾrm as a toponym in northwestern Arabia (Savignac, 591; Macdonald, 3:76, n. 171; Hoyland, 39–40), near the modern border between Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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Islam.
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ALei2685.pdf
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