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QARA (A L).—
See Fuwwah.
QARA'AH—
A village in Qasim {q, h.), central Arabia.
QARA'AH—
A low plateau in the Dibdibah district {q. v^), of the Kuwait Principality, norths
eastern Arabia.
QARAFAH (A L)—
A Bedouin camping ground in the interior of Qatar {q. v.), eastern Arabia.
QARlGHOL—
A section of the Shammar Toqah {q. v.), tribe of 'Iiaq.
QA'RAH—
A black, flinty, waterless plain in Hejaz, lying to the north-north-west of Mecca. It
is traversed by the coastal route between the Haramain and lies between the gravelly
plain of Al-Barkah (on the right bank of Wadi Laimun) and the wooded 'Asfan valley.
This makes its centre about 36 or 38 miles by road from Mecca. At a distance of 6 or 8
miles south of Bir 'Asfan there is a ruined building called Sabll-al-Qa'rah by the side
of which is a filled up well.
QARAH—
A village in northern central Arabia near the town of Jauf-al'Umr {q. v.).
QARAH (A L)—
A village, with a hill of the same name rising immediately to the south-east of it, in
the Hasa oasis {q. v.), in eastern Arabia.
QA'RAH (A L)—
A black, flinty plain, with low hills at a great distance to the east, situated to the north
west of Mecca at a distance of 7 hours from the point in Wadi Fatimah where that valley
is crossed by the route between Mecca and Al-Madinah, via 'Asfan and Rabigh. Al-
Qa'rah, which resembles a Nubian desert, is bounded on the south by another plain
called Al-Barqa, and on the north by the wooded valley of 'Asfan. It bears a few thorny
trees, but affords no water.
Three hours further along the road towards Al-Madinah there is a ruined buildings
called Sabil-al-Qa'rah,* where a well, now filled up, formerly supplied travellers with
water. The plain, which hereabouts is overgrown with some trees and thick shrubs,
takes altogether six hours to traverse.— {Burckhardt, January, 1815.)
QARAH (B ABR-AL-)—
A coastal tract in Eastern Arabia which may perhaps be reckoned as included in the
Sanjaq of Hasa. It reaches from Ras-as-Sufairah on the north to the bottom of Dohat-
as-Salwa on the south, a distance of about 36 miles ; and inland it extends to a depth of
about 12 miles. Upon the coast it meets Barr-al-'Oqair to the north, and Qatar to the
south of it; and inland, in all directions, it merges in the Jafurah desert. Some
authorities would even make Barr-al-Qarah a part of Jafurah.
♦Burckhardt defines a sabll as a small, open building, often found by the side of springs ; in these salils trav
ellers pray and take their repose.