Iram of the Pillars

89th chapter of the Qur'an

valley in southern Jordan

one of the prophets in Islam

lost city, region or tribe mentioned in the Quran

ʿĀd (, '''') was an ancient tribe in pre-Islamic Arabia. The banū ʿĀd (people of ʿĀd) are best known for being mentioned two dozen times in the Quran, often in conjunction with Thamud. In 2025 it was shown that 'Ad was a tribe that existed two millennia ago in the Wadi Rum region of the southern Jordan.

British explorer (born 1944)

English Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer (1885–1960)

1921 short story by H. P. Lovecraft

impact craters in Saudi Arabia

The lost land in the Arabian desert

19th-century Persian-language chronicle