8. Abū Nuṣayr | أبو نصير

al-Balqā’ Governorate

Maqām / Weli Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr

JADIS no. none

MEGA no. none

Coordinates: 30o 04’ 42” N; 35o 51’ 34” E

32.078093145676995, 35.85958653373083

Plan: “...basically a mound of stones” (Hattab 2015).No further evidence available today.

Measurements: unknown.

Exterior: unknown.

Interior: unknown.

Building Materials: unknown.

Construction details: unknown.

Preservation: Nothing of the former maqām remains. The tomb building has been replaced recently (early 2000s) by a mosque without tomb.

Inscription(s): none known.

Date(s): Unknown, most likely apocryphal and established in recent times. Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr died naturally while on the Hajj pilgrimage in about the year 715–716 AD. According to al-Bakrī, Kitāb al-Masālik wa’l-Ma- mālik (ca. 1067/68 AD), his tomb was venerated in Zaragoza (Andalusia, Spain).

Traveler Reports: none known.

Bibliography: Hiyyari 2008, 20; Rawadiyah 2007, I 68; HSJ 17 note 14; Hattab 2015, 77.

Fig. 8.1 Maqām prior to its recent renovation (NAt 2007).

Fig. 8.2 Maqām in present condition (NAt 2007).