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At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Overview
Rusafat Hisham is in the districts of al-Raqqa, founded by Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik. Before it, he used to stay at al-Zaytuna. He dug al-Hani and al-Mari, and founded in it the Wasit of al-Raqqa. Then it was confiscated at the beginning of the Abbasid state, and it became the property of Umm Ja'far Zubayda bint Ja'far ibn al-Mansur, who built in it the estate (qati'a) attributed to her. 1
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.247
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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islam.museum contributors. “Rusafat Hisham”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/rusafat-hisham/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.