Harran, one of the Jazira's cities; its people made terms with Iyad ibn Ghanam like those of al-Ruha — it holds the mound of Afra' and the field of the place of prayer.
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Harran
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Harran, one of the Jazira's cities. Its people made terms with Iyad ibn Ghanam like those of al-Ruha; it is told they moved into it before his arrival and sued for terms on their town from inside, the Harranians and the Christians competing over the reconciliation, per al-Baladhuri. In it are the mound of Afra', the land of Tall Madhaba and the field of the place of prayer, and meadows in its outskirts for al-Ghamr ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik. Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari transmits from al-Bakri that Harran's gate bore a Syriac inscription attributed to Plato, and that what survives of the Sabians' temples is a house called Ma'lnisha — among them the temple of Azar, Abraham's father.
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