Qaṭar

A form of Qatar — A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: State of Qatar. Capital: Doha.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. rareRare form of Qatar.

    Īšō‘dad of Qaṭar

    2012, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1224, column 1
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    […] were joined there as quickly as possible, by the ‘Utūb of Zubāra and Ruwais, and by contingents from various tribes of Qaṭar.

    1988, Ahmad Mustafa Abu-Hakima, History of Eastern Arabia, 1750-1800: The Rise and Development of Bahrain, Kuwait and Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, London: Arthur Probsthain, →ISBN, page 115

    By alternately entreating and threatening the Christians of Qaṭar and visiting Simeon personally, Isho’yahb managed to heal the division and achieve a secure arrangement, giving India and Qaṭar—formerly under the control of Fars—their own metropolitans.

    1997, Robert G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam; 13), Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., published 2001, →ISBN

    Scattered references in his treatises link Simon to the monasteries of Kashkar (south of Babylon) and Khuzistan (SW Iran) in the third quarter of the seventh century, placing him in the same general circles as Isaac of Nineveh and Dadisho of Qaṭar.

    2010, Joel T. Walker, “Ascetic Literacy: Books and Readers in East-Syrian Monastic Tradition”, in Henning Börm, Josef Wiesehöfer, editors, Commutatio et Contentio: Studies in the Late Roman, Sasanian, and Early Islamic Near East, Wellem Verlag, →ISBN, page 321

    What then if he is located not seven or eight miles from the boundary of the sanctuary, but rather seven or eight hundred miles away in Qaṭar? Then the appropriate inclination to the left would be less than a fifth of one degree—far too little for a normal person without scientific instruments to be aware of. Kūfa is about the same distance from Mecca as Qaṭar, and thus the tradition does not work in these terms either.

    2013, Michael Cook, “Why Incline to the Left in Prayer? Sectarianism, Dialectic, and Archaeology in Imāmī Shīʿism”, in Michael Cook, Najam Haider, Intisar Rabb, Asma Sayeed, editors, Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi (Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part II (Shīʿī Tradition)

    As noted, the former Chief of the Sharīʿa Courts and Religious Issues of the nation of Qaṭar has claimed to rely upon the rulings of Ibn al-Mundhir as a legal resource.

    2017, Carolyn Baugh, Minor Marriage in Early Islamic Law (Studies in Islamic Law and Society; 41), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 161
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