Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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al-Rumma
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or ruma, wādī , the main regional drainage system of north Arabia, running over 1,000 km/620 miles from the Ḥarrat K̲h̲aybar in the Ḥid̲j̲āz, to the north-east of Medina through al-Ḳaṣīm to run out in southern al-ʿIrāḳ. Al-Hamdānī (ed. Müller, i, 144) mentions Baṭn al-Rumma flowing between two mountain areas in the neighbourhood of the lands of the tribe of al-Ṭayyiʾ and the fertile land of al-Ḳaṣīm to the south. He also mentions (i, 145) Wādī Sarīr as being the name of the lo…
