'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [‎1463] (536/688)

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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 A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. 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 A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. 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.