Al-Muwaqqar
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Al-Muwaqqar ({{langx|ar|الموقر}}) is a district in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan.Maplandia world gazetteer 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.[http://www.atlastours.net/jordan/al_muwaqqar.html Al-Muwaqqar] at AtlasTours.net
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.
{{anchor|Archaeology: Qasr al-Muwaqqar}}Archaeology: Qasr al-Muwaqqar
The village 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 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.[https://www.aramcoworld.com/CMSPages/GetAzureFile.aspx?path=~\aramcoworldsite\files\4d\4d8ee990-ea86-4d36-aee6-4f00f31e167d.pdf&hash=4d474979a4c9a956fff5f571ffa41342e7113e879ad853869835e0e2d64aab8c "Jordan's Desert Castles"], Aramco World magazine, March 1963, pp. 10-13 (see p. 11).
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.{{cite book |last= Bartl |first= Karin |title= Water management in desert regions: Early Islamic Qasr Mushash |page= 50-68 [see p. 63] |editor-last1= McPhillips |editor-first1= Stephen |editor-last2= Wordsworth |editor-first2= Paul D. |work= Landscapes of the Islamic World: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography, Part I: Hydroeconomies: managing and living with water. |publisher= University of Pennsylvania Press |year= 2016 |isbn= 9780812292763 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=GaspDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA63 |access-date=19 July 2019}} 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.
See also
References
External links
- [http://www.atlastours.net/jordan/al_muwaqqar.html Information and image from Qasr Al Muwaqqar]
- [https://acor.digitalrelab.com/index.php?s=filter=place_name:al-Muwaqqar%20(Jordan) Photos of al-Muwaqqar] at the American Center of Research
- [https://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk/pages/collections_featured.php?parent=6217 Photos of Qasr al-Muwaqqar] at the Manar al-Athar photo archive
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Category:Populated places in Amman Governorate
Category:Umayyad architecture in Jordan
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