qaṭar

Example Sentences

• "[…] were joined there as quickly as possible, by the ‘Utūb of Zubāra and Ruwais, and by contingents from various tribes of Qaṭar."
• "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."
• "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."
• "Īšō‘dad of Qaṭar"
• "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."
• "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."