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

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" Karak - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Milwright, Marcus

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062414
Doc. NO	:	ALei2811
Main Entry	:	Milwright, Marcus
Title & Author	:	Karak - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Milwright, Marcus
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,605 words)
Abstract	:	The Jordanian town of Karak is located at the centre of a fertile plateau (Arḍ al-Karak) east of the Dead Sea, approximately 170 kilometres south of Amman. Karak is now the administrative capital of a governorate (liwāʾ). The old town and the castle are surrounded by steep valleys on the east, north, and west and by the hill of Umm al-Thalj on the south. Karak rose to greatest prominence in Middle Eastern political life between the sixth/twelfth and early ninth/fifteenth centuries. This is explained partly by
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2811.pdf