Al-Najd - What is it?

[psyah]

Re: Al-Najd - What is it?

@Ali_Syed

I have got one simple question here. The ahadeeth that we have regarding this najdi fitna have taken out Syria and Yemen from the equation.

If we go east from Madinah we have one Najd (in Saudia), and another one in northern Iraq (which is North East from Madinah). Iraq’s highlands are basically northern Iraq (areas where Kurds reside now?), which used to be called aljazira back then. Perhaps this area was never consider part of Iraq. Proper Iraq consists of plains. If we want to lump the highlands of Saudia and Iraq it would be highlands then plains and then highlands again (North Iraq).

For educational purposes lets take the whole area east of Madinah (Saudi plus Iraq) as medieval Najd, now please educate us about the groups emanating from this area and what impact they are having for Islam? What ideology these groups follow?

Another thing is that we tend to make a supposition that Iraq and Syria of today had the same boundaries back then.

Indian Muslims Condemn Islamic State Group as ‘Un-Islamic’

I would argue one step further - that is mountain ranges are not included in the definition “Najd” - Najd means “plateau” - which is basically high ground a plate like a step that is generally flat but high. The biggest such plateau in the region is the whole of Central Arabia. Flat and Raised … Not spikey like mountain ranges.

Additionally - Najd is a name rather than a description - which is denoted by the use of the term Al-Najd. Let’s look at history and see which fitnas came and where from to get a better picture of what is happening.