Al-Muwaqqar

Al-Muwaqqar(Arabic: الموقر‎) is a district in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan.[1] 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 for a water reservoir.[2] 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: Khraisha, al-Arabid, al-Jbour, al-Qudahh.

Al-Muwaqqar

الموقر
District
Location of district in Amman
Coordinates: 31°48′56″N 36°5′39″E
Country Jordan
GovernorateAmman Governorate
Time zoneUTC + 2

Archaeology: Qasr al-Muwaqqar

The village of 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[2] 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.[3]

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 qasrs: al-Muwaqqar and Qasr al-Mushash.[4] 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 Karin Bartl, p. 63).

See also

References
  1. Maplandia world gazetteer
  2. http://www.atlastours.net/jordan/al_muwaqqar.html
  3. Jordan's Desert Castles, Aramco World magazine, March 1963, pp. 10-13, p. 11
  4. Karin Bartl, Water management in desert regions: Early Islamic Qasr Mushash, as Chapter 3, pp. 50-68, see p. 63. in Landscapes of the Islamic World: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography, Part I. Hydroeconomies: managing and living with water. Stephen McPhillips, Paul D. Wordsworth (editors), University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, ISBN 9780812292763, accessed 19 July 2019


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