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Its site is believed to be marked by the two mounds on the left bank of the Tigris, opposite the flourishing city of Mosul on the right bank, about 230 miles north-north-west of Bagdad.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/10/98
about twenty miles south of Mosul. This is the site of Assyrian ruins of great interest, but the rise of Assyria as an Empire was of course much later than the time of Abraham.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/11/69
The traditional site of the well into which Joseph was thrown by his brothers is still shown in the neighbourhood. Joseph was a mere lad.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/12/4
The Farthest Mosque must refer to the site of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem on the hill of Moriah, at or near which stands the Dome of the Rock, called also the Mosque of Hadhrat 'Umar.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/17/1
If Nimrud's capital was in Assyria, near Nineveh (site near modern Mosul), we may suppose either that the king's rule extended over the whole of Mesopotamia,
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/21/69
Behold! We gave the site to Abraham of the (Sacred) House (saying): "Associate not any thing (in worship) with Me;
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/22/26
The site lies on the highway between Arabia and Syria. Cf. xv. 74, 76, and n. 1998.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/25/40
There were many such in the past, which are now mere names! Their very sites are deserted in most cases, or buried in the debris of ages. India is full of such sites nearly everywhere.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/28/58
It has a good irrigation system and produces good harvests of grain and dates in its wet valleys, while the outcrop of rocks in the high ground affords sites for numerous fortresses.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/33/27
First, in this verse, we have the nature of the mise en scene and the nature of the joy therein. It will be a Garden i.e.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/36/55