307. Rēmūn | ريمون

Jerash Governorate

Maqām / Weli Shēkh Muḥammad er-Rēmūnī and Shēkh al-Jabal.

JADIS no. none

MEGA no. none

Coordinates: 32°16'55.2"N 35°49'40.3"E

32.282000, 35.827861

Plan: unknown.

Measurements: unknown.

Building Materials: unknown.

Construction details: unknown.

Preservation: old maqām destroyed and replaced by a humble skeleton concrete building.

Inscription(s): none known.

Dates: unknown.

Traveler Reports: “Proceeding more northerly, but over the same kind of rocky ground, we came, in another hour, to Eremoon. At this place we found a well-built Mohammedan tomb, with a reservoir for water and a large spreading tree near it, on which, as well as at the door of the tomb itself, were suspended tokens of devotion in various shapes” (Buckingham 1825). “Südwestlich von ‘êsarâ liegt, ebenfalls an den Abhängen des afrūn, in einer Höhe von 828 m, das Dorf Rêmûn mit aneinandergebauten Hütten, zwei Welis, er-rêmûnî und schêch ed-dschebel, am Wege nach kitti, ...”(Steuernagel 1927).

Bibliography: Buckingham 1825, 133-134; Steuernagel 1927, A 174; 277-278; Mittmann 1970, 29-30; Ghawanimeh 1986a, 19-36;MacKenzie 2002, 618-619; Walker 2011, 153 note 111.