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September 10, 2015, 9:00pm
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Re: Al-Najd - What is it?
I’ll add another thing, Iraq had a name even then.
As far as high ground is East of Madinah is concerned. Saudi areas are much higher as compared to South and Central Iraq. You can check the elevations of main Iraqi cities with Riyadh.
Here are are the elevations of some cities for reference purposes:
Basra 5 m above sea level, Kufa (24 m), Baghdad (34 m), Mosul (228 m), Kirkuk (346 m) as compared to Madinah (603 m) and Riyadh (over 612 m).
i am reproducing a paragraph from Britannica here.
“The western part of Najd (Nejd, meaning “Highland”), known as Upper Najd, lies within the Arabian shield with an average elevation of 4,000 feet; the eastern part falls within the sedimentary province with the city of Riyadh (Al-Riyāḍ), near the eastern edge, having an elevation of about 1,950 feet. The principal drainage of Najd consists of a number of eastward-flowing wadi systems that carry water only seasonally.”
4000 feet translate to over 1200 m.
As far as fitna is concerned, Do you know of any fitna in our history bigger than ISIS?
Peace Ali_Syed
What I wrote earlier using the topographical maps shows exactly this point. Iraq is not “highland”. So I agree - or rather your findings concur with my earlier post.
In terms of bigger fitnah than Daesh - forget about Islamic history … A bigger fitnah is the Assad regime.