community
Wadi al-Qura
valley around al-Ula, Saudi Arabia · Arabia & Arab frontier
26.500, 37.500
Approximate location. The map shows a region, not a pin.
Attested. Jewish communities are attested in Islamic sources. Christian monks rest on later poetry as read by Shahid. The exact valley extent is vague, so the pin is a region anchor.
Wadi al-Qura
valley around al-Ula
The 'valley of villages' was a chain of oases between Tayma and Medina with Jewish farming communities, conquered in 628. Irfan Shahid points to Umayyad poetry mentioning 'monks in the lower part of Wadi al-Qura' and to the Christian tribe of Udhra there.
Source stance: neutral. Islamic sources and Umayyad poetry.
People and groups named here
- Banu Udhra (Christian tribe, per Shahid)
- Jewish oasis communities
Sources
- Wadi al-Qura (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Christianity in pre-Islamic Arabia (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pleiades place 814750: Wadi al-Qura'
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.