al-Mushattā

Alan Walmsley

doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_36544

al-Mushattā

Alan Walmsley

Department of Ancient History

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Abstract

Al-Mushattā (“the winter residence,” also referred to as “al-Mshattā”) is an unfinished palatial structure from the Umayyad period located some 30 km south of ʿAmmān in the Jordanian steppe (bādiya). Intended to receive Syrian pilgrims returning from the ḥajj, the route for which passed nearby, al-Mushattā was commissioned during the brief reign of the caliph al-Walīd b. Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik (al-Walīd II, r. 125–6/743–4), who initiated many projects in the Balqāʾ district of Jund Dimashq.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Editors	Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Brill
Pages	141-145
Number of pages	5
Volume	2020-3
ISBN (Print)	9789004413450
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_36544
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020

Keywords

Islamic history
pilgrimage
visual culture
Islamic civilization
elite identity

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