Jiblah ( ar, جِبْلَة) is a town in south-western

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, south, south-west of

Ibb Ibb ( ar, إِبّ, ʾIbb) is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, located about northeast of Mocha and south of Sana'a. A market town and administrative centre developed during the Ottoman Empire, it is one of the most important ...

in the governorate of the same name. It is located at the elevation of around , near Jabal At-Taʿkar (). The town and its surroundings were added to the

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Tentative List due to its purported universal cultural value. The historical

Palace of Queen Arwa The Palace of Queen Arwa ( ar, قَصْر ٱلْمَلِكَة ٱلْحُرَّة, lit=Palace of the Noble Queen) was the residence of the Yemeni Queen Arwa al-Sulayhi ) , name = Arwā bint Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ...

is located in the town.

History

Following the assassination of the

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'Ali ibn Muhammad in 1067 CE,

Arwa al-Sulayhi ) , name = Arwā bint Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Mūsā Aṣ-Ṣulayḥī , other_names = ''As-Sayyidah Al-Ḥurrah'' () ''Al-Malikah Al-Ḥurrah'' ( ar, ٱلْمَلِكَة ٱلْحُرَّة or ...

's husband Ahmad became the ''

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'' ruler of Yemen, but he was unable to rule, being paralysed and bedridden. He gave all of his power to Arwa, one of her first actions was to move the capital from Sana'a to Jibla, in order to be in a better position to destroy Sa'id ibn Najar, and thus avenge her father-in-law's death. This she managed to do by luring him into a trap in 1088. She built a new palace at Jibla, and transformed the old palace into a great mosque where she was eventually buried.Muhammad Zakaria (1998) ''مساجد اليمن''

Rural life of villagers

As late as 1979, the women of Jibla would launder their clothes in large pools formed by rivulets of natural spring water, which trickled down the slopes of ''Jebal Attaker''. Stepping stones of the brook were used in place of scrub-boards.

Infrastructure

Hospital(s)

Located here is the American Baptist Hospital. It is where Taher Qassim (a public health practitioner and founder of the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, who was born in the village of Al-Karaba) spent 3½ years in

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. On December 30, 2002, an Islamist militant entered Jibla Baptist Hospital, and shot and killed three

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hospital workers. The day after the shootings, ownership of the hospital was transferred to the

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. The government assumed responsibility in 2003, and continued to employ Southern Baptist workers, until its closing in May 2007. As with other areas in war-torn Yemen, Jiblah was affected by the

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, but its hospital lacked capabilities to

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for the

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, thus doctors there had to use other means to diagnose it. Yet according to two

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s there, the hospital daily received almost 50 people with

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, and out of fear of reprisals, doctors did not inform relatives of deceased patients about them even being suspected to have contracted the virus.

Mosques

There are two historical mosques here: * That of Queen Arwa * Qubbat Bayt Az-Zum Mosque ( ar, مَسْجِد قُبَّة بَيْت ٱلْزُّوْم, Masjid Qubbat Bayt Az-Zūm), also known as ''Masjid Qubbat Ash-

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Yaʿqūb Az-Zūm'' (), which was established in 921 A.H.

References

External links

Ministry of Information of Yemen

Travel Adventures

Yémen : Ibb, Jibla
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Jabal At-Ta'kar

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{{Yemeni cities Populated places in Ibb Governorate