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Dimensions of Written Surface: 12.6 (w) x 4.7 (h) cm
Script: thuluth
This calligraphic panel includes a single line of Arabic text executed in black thuluth script. A simple prayer towards God, it reads:
Yakad yumasikuhu 'irfan rahatihi rukn al-hatim / The grasping of God (al-hatim) brings the knowledge of His comfort.
The line of text is executed on beige paper and outlined in a cloud band on a gold background. It also is provided with a number of colored frames and is pasted to a larger sheet of orange paper backed by cardboard. The lower left corner of the line of text contains a square seal impression with the barely legible names: 'abduhu (his servant) Muhsin (or Muhyi) al-Musavi and the date 1154/1741-2. Above the line of text and in the center of the green frame appears a minute a posteriori inscription, which reads: khatt-i marhum 'Ala' al-Din Tabrizi, shahir bi-Mawlana 'Alabeg ast ("the handwriting of the deceased 'Ala' al-Din Tabrizi, who is known as Mawlana 'Alabeg").
'Ala al-Din Tabrizi was a calligrapher active during the reign of the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-76), for whom he executed royal decrees (firmans). He executed a number of inscriptions placed on buildings in the cities Tabriz, Karbalah, and Qazvin (Safwat 1996: 84-88 and cat. no. 43, and 134-5, cat. no. 65; Huart 1972, 103; and Qadi Ahmad 1959, 79).

Although the later inscription attributes the specimen to 'Ala' al-Din, it is unclear whether this Arabic prayer indeed was written by the great Safavid master calligrapher.
A page from Hatim al-Tai book includes a duʿāʾ for Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz
Castle of Hatim At-Tai
Photo by Alaeddin Tabrizi
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Ḩātim

Irbid, Jordan · Asia

About Ḩātim

Ḩātim is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Malkā, 27km from Sea of Galilee.

Ḩātim is in Irbid, Jordan, with about 5,500 people. The nearest town is Malkā, about 4 km away.

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Within an hour or so of Ḩātim: Sea of Galilee (27 km), Mount Arbel (33 km), Ajloun Castle (36 km), Jerash (43 km).

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Ḩātim is in Irbid, Jordan, about 4 km from Malkā.

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Population
5,542
Continent
Asia
Country
Jordan
Region
Irbid
Timezone
Asia/Amman
Coordinates
32.6449, 35.7777

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Worth the detour from Ḩātim

4 notable places within an hour's drive.

natural wonder

Sea of Galilee

The largest freshwater lake in Israel, central to Christian scripture and surrounded by important biblical sites including Capernaum and the Mount of Beatitudes.

27 km · about 30 min drive

scenic viewpoint

Mount Arbel

A cliff dropping 380m to the Sea of Galilee, with fortified caves cut into its face by Jewish rebels and a lookout taking in the whole lake to the Golan. Israel's only base-jumping mountain.

33 km · about 40 min drive

castle

Ajloun Castle

A 12th-century Ayyubid castle built by Saladin's general on a hilltop to control the Jordan Valley iron mines and counter Crusader expansion.

36 km · about 40 min drive

ancient ruins

Jerash

One of the best-preserved and most complete Roman provincial cities in the world, featuring colonnaded streets, temples, theaters, and an unusual oval plaza.

43 km · about 50 min drive

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  • 33 kmMount ArbelA cliff dropping 380m to the Sea of Galilee, with fortified caves cut into its face by Jewish rebels and a lookout taking in the whole lake to the Golan. Israel's only base-jumping mountain.

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Malkā

🇯🇴 Jordan

4 km awayPop. 6,856

Kafr Sawm

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5 km awayPop. 7,152

Zaḩar

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9 km awayPop. 4,150

Irbid

🇯🇴 Jordan

12 km awayPop. 569,068

Bayt Yāfā

🇯🇴 Jordan

14 km awayPop. 7,788

Ar Ramthā

🇯🇴 Jordan

24 km awayPop. 155,693

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