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Qasr Al-Ablaq (Qasr Samawal), Tayma, Saudi Arabia

Tayma, Saudi Arabia

The Qasr Al-Ablaq (قصر الأبلق, حصن الآبلق, قصر سموال, or Qasr Samawal) in Tayma, Saudi Arabia.

Description

This palace/ castle was built by Samawal (السموأل بن عادياء الحريث, שמואל בן עדיה‎), a pre-Islamic (Jahiliyah era) Jewish poet who lived in Tayma.

Tayma, Saudi Arabia

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Sources

For more on Samawal: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/14138/SMW'l-pgs1-20_Eng-HeS-2.pdf?sequence=3


and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaw%27al_ibn_%27Adiya


For more on Qasr Al-Ablaq: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B5%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%82


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