The Arabian city of Ubar ( Iram of the Pillars ) was abandoned after much of the desert city and its primary water source collapsed into a sinkhole.

The Arabian city of Ubar ( Iram of the Pillars ) was abandoned after much of the desert city and its primary water source collapsed into a sinkhole.

* The proper nouns Iram ( Q 89: 7, Iram of the Pillars ), Bābil ( Q 2: 102, Babylon ), Bakka ( t ) ( Q 3: 96, Bakkah ), Jibt ( Q 4: 51 ), Ramaḍān ( Q 2: 185, Ramadan ), ar-Rūm ( Q 30: 2, Ancient Rome ), Tasnīm ( Q 83: 27 ), Qurayš ( Q 106: 1, Quraysh ), Majūs ( Q 22: 17, Magi ), Mārūt ( Q 2: 102, Harut and Marut ), Makka ( t ) ( Q 48: 24, Mecca ), Nasr ( Q 71: 23 ), ( Ḏū ) an-Nūn ( Q 21: 87 ) and Hārūt ( Q 2: 102, Harut and Marut ) occur only once in the Qurʾān.

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* Rub ' al Khali is one of the settings for the Playstation 3 video game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, in which protagonist Nathan Drake searches for the Iram of the Pillars.

* Iram of the Pillars, a lost city located on the Arabian Peninsula

The wider area was certainly well-known ; in ancient Arabic poetry, Wabar or Ubar ( also known as " Iram of the Pillars ") was the site of a fabulous city that was destroyed by fire from the heavens because of the wickedness of its king.

* Iram of the Pillars, also called Aram, a lost city on the Arabian Peninsula

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Iram of the Pillars ( Arabic: إر َ م ذات العماد, ), also called Aram, Iram, Irum, Irem, ErY

The conclusion they reached, based on site excavations at the site of a Bedouin well at Shisr in Dhofar province, Oman, and an inspection of NASA satellite photographs, was that this was the site of Ubar, or Iram of the Pillars, the name for an ancient city destroyed by a natural disaster.

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The sura describes destruction of disbelieving peoples, such as Ancient Egyptians and the people of Iram of the Pillars.

The tribe of of Iram of the Pillars is also mentioned in Sura 89: 5 – 8, and archaeological evidence from Iram shows copious inscriptions devoted to her for the protection of a tribe by that name.

* Iram of the Pillars, a lost city of Arabia

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Jacinths are mentioned as decorating the city of Iram in Richard Francis Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights.

It has been suggested that Ubar, or Iram, a lost city, depended on such trade.

* In Daniel Easterman's second novel, The Seventh Sanctuary it is the location of the lost city of Iram, where the eponymous seventh sanctuary is situated.

In 1992 Fiennes led an expedition that discovered what may be an outpost of the lost city of Iram in Oman.

The Quran ( 1, 400 years ago ) mentions a city by the name of Iram ( a city of pillars ) The Dawn 89: 7:

* " Iram " is the lost city where the Muslim hero Thalaba was kept safe in Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer ( 1801 )

The Qur ' an mentions Ad as a collective, Iram as a capital city for the collective, and the rolling sand dunes of what is now called the Empty Quarter as the setting of this event as related in Surah 89: 6-9.

An ancient city in the area known as Ubar is in fact said to be Iram.

* In Weaveworld, by Clive Barker, one of the antagonists visits the Empty Quarter and finds what is presumably the magically restored ruins of Iram.

In the early 1980s a group of researchers interested in the history of Iram used NASA remote sensing satellites, ground penetrating radar, Landsat program data and images taken from the Space Shuttle Challenger as well as SPOT data to identify old camel train routes and points where they converged.

There is extant evidence for an ancient earthwork south of Aldreth at the junction of the old fen causeway and Iram Drove.

In the 1980s there was the discovery of what is thought to be Ubar, mentioned in the Qur ' an as Iram, which is believed to have been the capital of ʿĀd.

Abbas Kuli-Aga-Bakikhanov in book Gulistan-i Iram ( 1841 ) on the basis of the chronicle " Derbend-name " wrote that " inhabitants of vicinities of Agran have been moved here from Khurasan.

Between Long Iram and Muara Kaman ( middle Mahakam area ) the river is flowing in quaternary alluvium, while in the downstream area between Muara Kaman and the coast including the Mahakam delta, tertiary rocks are again present.

Iram became known to Western literature with the translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.

Iram ( إرم ) is the place to which the prophet Hud ( هود ) was sent in order to guide its people back to the righteous path of Islam.

Iram has only two ancient historic references ; the first being a Sumerian cuneiform tablet, and the other being the above referenced Qur ' anic verse.

* Tafas – Lawrence's guide to Faisal is based on his actual guide, Sheikh Obeid el-Rashid, of the Hazimi branch of the Beni Salem, whom Lawrence referred to as Tafas several times in Seven Pillars.

* Medical officer – This unnamed officer who confronts Lawrence in Damascus is based on an actual incident in Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Though the genre has evolved since its inception, the historical novel remains popular with authors and readers to this day ; bestsellers include Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

* Spain – Pillars of Hercules

* Six Pillars, ( 1934 – 35 ), by Berthold Lubetkin, on Crescent Wood Road, a villa strongly in the spirit of Le Corbusier with eponymous six pillars at street level.

* Philip Mansel, Pillars of Monarchy: An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards 1400 – 1984, ISBN 0-7043-2424-5

* Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth

Later, during the Arab Revolt of 1917 – 18, Lawrence based his operations in Wadi Rum ( now a part of Jordan ), and one of the more impressive rock formations in the area was named by Lawrence " The Seven Pillars of Wisdom ".

* Dillon, Eamon Dilloninvestigates. com, The Fraudsters – How Con Artists Steal Your Money Chapter 5, Pillars of Society, published September 2008 by Merlin Publishing, Ireland ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4

Pandyas are also mentioned in the Pillars of Ashoka ( inscribed 273 – 232 BC ).

in 1922 – 6 he was commissioned to produce illustrations and decorations for Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

The smoke was channelled down rock cut flues to tall chimneys – known as the ' Pillars of Hercules ' – on either side of the tunnel facing.

* 2006 – Marianne Elliott for Pillars of the Community

* Hayley Atwell – The Pillars of the Earth as Aliena

* Ian McShane – The Pillars of the Earth as Waleran Bigod

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