Qasr Ibn Wardan (Arabic: قصر ابن وردان) is a hamlet and 6th-century archaeological site located in the Syrian Desert, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi)...

Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi (Arabic: قصر الحير الشرقي, lit. 'Eastern al-Hayr Palace or the "Eastern Castle"') is a castle (qasr) in the middle of the Syrian...

their court culture, including their penchant for desert palaces like Qasr ibn Wardan, provided the model for the Umayyad caliphs and their court. After...

December 2014, Jabhat al-Nusra raided the group's headquarters in Qasr Ibn Wardan because of the group's closeness with ISIL. During the raid the group's...

Castle Qal'at Ja'bar Qal'at Najm Qalaat al-Madiq Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi Qasr Ibn Wardan Qulay'a Castle Al-Rahba Sahyun Castle Shaizar...

Damascus road. The castle is a twin palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, built by the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 727 CE. It was built in the...

Castle Qal'at Ja'bar Qal'at Najm Qalaat al-Madiq Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi Qasr Ibn Wardan Qulay'a Castle Al-Rahba Sahyun Castle Shaizar...

the Baptistery of Saint Jacob at Nusaybin (4th century CE) and in Qasr Ibn Wardan (564 CE). Another possible origin of the horseshoe arch motif is India...

Ithriya, Kafr Buhum, Karnaz, Mahardah, Masyaf, Murak, Qalaat al-Madiq, Qasr Ibn Wardan, Sabburah, Salamiyah, Shaykh Hilal, Shaytalun, Suran and Tayyibat at...

kilometres (17 mi) away, was the 12th-century castle of Gibelacar (Hisn Ibn Akkar). The route through the strategically important Homs Gap connects the...

Ravenna, and slightly more pointed example from a church, built 564 at Qasr Ibn Wardan in Roman Syria. Pointed arches' development may have been influenced...

with maintenance of the area financed by the sultan. Intrepid traveller Ibn Battuta visited the fortress and noted that a suburb was built outside of...

to the top Passage Walls Rooftop Wikimedia Commons has media related to Qasr Ibn Maʿan. List of castles in Syria List of World Heritage in Danger List of...

unspecified point afterward it came into the possession of a certain Ja'bar ibn Sabiq, a member of the tribe of Banu Numayr or Banu Qushayr. He was killed...

conquest of Syria in the 7th century, Hama was conquered by Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah in 638 or 639 and the town regained its ancient name, and has since...

Sultan ibn 'Ali ibn al-Muqallad ibn Munqidh al-Kinani (1059–1081) 'Izz ad-Dawla Sadid al-Mulk ibn Munqidh (1081–1082) 'Izz ad-Dawla abu-l-Murhaf Nasr ibn Munqidh...

Sahyun and Bourzey to one of his emirs, Mankawar (also known as "Mankurus ibn Khumartigin"). The pair descended through the latter's heirs until 1272 when...

discuss] The city was again rebuilt in the Islamic era by Abdallah ibn Salih ibn Ali al-Abassi, the Abbasid governor of southern and central Syria. Al-Abbasi's...

ISSN 0732-2992. The enigmatic example which puzzled [Creswell] was Qasr Ibn Wardan, a building firmly dated to the reign of Justinian I, and he rightly...

Castle Qal'at Ja'bar Qal'at Najm Qalaat al-Madiq Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi Qasr Ibn Wardan Qulay'a Castle Al-Rahba Sahyun Castle Shaizar...

Castle Qal'at Ja'bar Qal'at Najm Qalaat al-Madiq Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi Qasr Ibn Wardan Qulay'a Castle Al-Rahba Sahyun Castle Shaizar...

result of wind erosion. The original site, which was known as "Rahbat Malik ibn Tawk" after its Abbasid namesake and founder, was located along the Euphrates...

Jabal Sais (Arabic: جبل سايس also known as Qasr Says is a Umayyad desert fortification or former palace in Syria which was built 707-715 AD. The fortification...

about 25 kilometers beyond the more well-known Byzantine site of Qasr Ibn Wardan. Androna was built as a defense line against nomadic skirmishes in...

mountains in northwest Syria. The castle was built around 1120 by Saif al-Mulk ibn Amrun, and was sold to the Isma'ilis 1138 by his son Musa. It served as the...

with gardens and a spring from which flowed a small stream. According to Ibn Battuta, who passed by the town in 1355, Masyaf was the center of a district...

Castle Qal'at Ja'bar Qal'at Najm Qalaat al-Madiq Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi Qasr Ibn Wardan Qulay'a Castle Al-Rahba Sahyun Castle Shaizar...

their court culture, including their penchant for desert palaces like Qasr ibn Wardan, provided the model for the Umayyad caliphs and their court. Among...

Shamaliyah Kharsan Maaloula Muwaylah al-Sirwana Maar Shamali Qanater Qasr Ali Qasr Ibn Wardan Rabda Rasm Anz Rasm al-Daheriyah Rasm al-Ward Ruhayyah Shihat al-Hamraa...

("temporal village") in the District of Salamiyah. It is situated near the Qasr ibn Wardan palace. General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central...