Abu Jarash

Abu Jarash

أبو جرش
Abu Jarash أبو جرش
Neighborhood
	Abu Jarash Location in Syria
	Coordinates: 33°31′56″N 36°17′25″E / 33.53222°N 36.29028°E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Damascus Governorate
Subdistrict	Damascus
Municipality	Al-Salihiyah
Population (2004)
• Total	12,798

Abu Jarash (Arabic: أبو جرش) is a neighborhood and district of the al-Salihiyah municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 12,798 in the 2004 census.^[1] In the 1936 French Mandate census, Abu Jarash had a population of 9,600, all Muslims.^[2] The neighborhood was built around the domed mausoleum of Abu Jarash,^[3] also known as Abdallah ibn Sala al-Raqqi, a high-ranking Ayyubid royal court official.^[4]

References

^ "Damascus Governorate Population 2004 Census". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
^ Khoury, Philip S. (1993). "Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: The Quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate". In Hourani, Albert (ed.). The Modern Middle East. University of California Press. p. 433.
^ Hillenbrand, Robert (1994). Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning. Columbia University Press. p. xxii.
^ Burns, Ross (2005). Damascus: A History. Routledge. p. 290.

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[1] "Damascus Governorate Population 2004 Census". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2016-04-09.

[2] Khoury, Philip S. (1993). "Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: The Quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate". In Hourani, Albert (ed.). The Modern Middle East. University of California Press. p. 433.

[3] Hillenbrand, Robert (1994). Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning. Columbia University Press. p. xxii.

[Burns290-4] Burns, Ross (2005). Damascus: A History. Routledge. p. 290.

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