Qal'at Saleh District

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Qal'at Saleh District ({{langx|ar|قضاء قلعة صالح|translit=Qalˤat Ṣāleḥ}}) is a district of the Maysan Governorate, Iraq.

Its district centre is Qal'at Saleh, a town of an estimated 40,000 inhabitants, located on the riverbanks of the Tigris, along the road that links Basra to Amarah, a mere 40 km away. Qalat Saleh's nearest towns are the district centres of Al-Majar Al Kabeer (20 km north-west), Al Kahlaa (17 km north), and Al Azeer (29 km south).

Mandaean Community

The town of Liṭlaṭa in the Qal'at Saleh District was home to a Mandaean bit manda (temple), which the British scholar E. S. Drower frequently visited.{{cite thesis|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1444088/|last=Aldihisi|first=Sabah|year=2008|title=The story of creation in the Mandaean holy book in the Ginza Rba|type=PhD|publisher=University College London}} Sheikh Negm bar Zahroon, a 20th-century Mandaean priest, spent most of his life in Liṭlaṭa.{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=Jorunn Jacobsen|title=The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history|publisher=Gorgias Press|publication-place=Piscataway, N.J|year=2010|isbn=978-1-59333-621-9}}

Notable Mandaeans born in Qal'at Saleh include the Mandaean priest Abdullah bar Sam and his son Abdul Jabbar Abdullah.

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{{Districts of Iraq}}

Category:Districts of Maysan Province

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