ʿĀd Lost City Area (Iram / Ubar) (Shisr ( 'Ād Historical Area))

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Iram cited pillars (إرم ذات العماد, Iram Dhat al-`imād), also called Irem , Ubar , Wabar or the City of thousand pillars , is a lost city mentioned in ancient writings and in oral tradition as an important commercial center of the desert Rub 'al Khali , located in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. It is estimated that existed from 3000 BC. BC until the i st century . The city disappears in the modern world and is no longer mentioned in some legends.

The Koran says Iram was built by the tribe of 'Ād , utility grandchildren of Noah . According to the Koran, it was so rich and decadent city, whose inhabitants, polytheists , practiced the occult . His king Shaddad , refused to take into account the warnings of the prophet Hud and Allah destroyed the city by burying it in the sand, turning the real Atlantis of the Sands. They were destroyed by a roaring and furious wind.

The history of this city was transformed into legend and came to European civilization with the translation of the Tales of the Arabian Nights .

According to historian Ibn Khaldun , commentators have misinterpreted the Surah "Al Fajr". According to Ibn khaldoun , no commentator or columnist has referred to this city, yet the roads of Yemen are covered by the guides. The imagination of the commentators of the Qur'an was exerted from grammatical considerations since the word Iram has epithet "the pillars" and Imad is taken in the direction of "columns", it follows not Iram may designate a building. In reality? the famous "pillars" are only tent poles because nothing suggests whether a particular building in a city.

If it is only in the Koran, it says: Al-Fajr, verse 8: التي لم يخلق مثلها في البلاد "The like of which was only built from the cities."

There is then unlikely whether single tents.