Sentence examples for jabal from inspiring English sources

Along the western flank of the city are the first towers of the Jabal Omar development, a sprawling complex that will eventually accommodate 100,000 people in 26 luxury hotels – sitting on another gargantuan plinth of 4,000 shops and 500 restaurants, along with its own six-storey prayer hall.

Alawi describes the imminent arrival of yet more seven-star hotels even closer to the mosque than the al-Bait clocktower, as well as proposals to develop Jabal Khandama, on the hills to the east, which will likely see the erasure of the site where the prophet Muhammad was born.

Jabal Saraj is 40 miles north of Kabul, and held by anti-Taliban forces.

The population took up its present position: the Shīʿites were driven out of the north but increased their strength in the south; many Druze moved from south Lebanon to Jebel Druze (Jabal al-Durūz) in southern Syria; Maronite peasants, increasing in numbers, moved south into districts mainly populated by Druze.

Since antiquity the Caucasus has been known for its large number of distinct languages; Arab geographers called the region Jabal Al-Alsun ("Mountain of Language").

From northwest to southeast the Al-Ḥajar ("The Stone") range includes the Ruʾūs al-Jibāl overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, the Al-Ḥajar al-Gharbī (Western Hajar), the vast massif of Jabal Al-Akhḍar (Green Mountain), the Jabal Nakhl, the Al-Ḥajar al-Sharqī (Eastern Hajar), and the Jabal Banī Jābir.

Fula Rapids, Fula also spelled Fulla or Fola, rapids on the Baḥr al-Jabal (Mountain Nile), about 4 miles (6.5 km) below Nimule, South Sudan.

The 26th dynasty artistic revival evolved further toward more-complex forms that culminated briefly in a Greco-Egyptian stylistic fusion, as seen in the tomb of Petosiris at Tūnah al-Jabal from the turn of the 3rd century bc.

In addition to the water it receives from the great lakes, the torrential tributaries of the Al-Jabal supply it with nearly 20 percent of its water.

Although very little survives of important funerary architecture, there is a group of tombs at Tunah al-Jabal of unusual form and great importance.

Sites with antiquities are located at Banī Ḥasan al-Shurīq, Al-Ashmūnein (ancient Hermopolis), and Tūnat al-Jabal, all south of Al-Minyā Al-Minyā