Baba Amr ( ar, بابا عمرو/

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: ''Bâba ʿAmr'') is a city district (''hayy'') in southwestern Homs in central Syria. In 2004, it had a population of 34,175 (the ''hayy'' of Sultaniya which abuts Baba Amr to the south was also counted in this figure).General Census of Population and Housing 2004
. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. Abutting Baba Amr and Sultaniya from the north and south respectively are the city districts of Inshaat and the village of

Jobar Jobar ( ar, جَوْبَر, Jawbar) also spelled Jawbar, Jober or Joubar, is a municipality of the Syrian capital Damascus. A once historical village on the outskirts of Damascus, it is now a suburb of the capital city. It lies 2 km northeas ...

. To the west are the villages of Aysun, Shalluh and al-Mazra'a and to the east is Homs'

Palestinian refugee camp Camps are set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to accommodate Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA, who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian e ...

History

Baba Amr was named after

Amr ibn Abasah Amr ibn Abasa ( ar, عمرو بن عبسة) was one of the Sahaba and one of the narrators of hadith. Biography By his own account, 'Amr ibn 'Abasa met Muhammad in Mecca in the early days of his prophethood, and asked him, "What are you?" He replie ...

, who was buried in Homs. In the early 20th century, Baba Amr was a village in Orontes plain southwest of Homs. The modern district was formed largely as a result of Bedouin migration from the desert steppe east of Homs to the city's suburbs in the 1960s and 1970s. The Bedouin moved to the area due to land reforms by the Ba'athist government of leaders

Salah Jadid Salah Jadid (1926 – 19 August 1993, ar, صلاح جديد, Ṣalāḥ Jadīd) was a Syrian general, a leader of the left-wing of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Syria, and the country's ''de facto'' leader from 1966 until 1970, when h ...

and Hafez al-Assad which saw many semi-nomadic Bedouin settle in the suburbs of major cities. Most of Baba Amr's inhabitants self-identify as members of the

Mawali Mawlā ( ar, مَوْلَى, plural ''mawālī'' ()), is a polysemous Arabic word, whose meaning varied in different periods and contexts.A.J. Wensinck, Encyclopedia of Islam 2nd ed, Brill. "Mawlā", vol. 6, p. 874. Before the Islamic prophet ...

and Bani Hassan tribal confederations. The inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims. During the Syrian Civil War, Baba Amr was the epicentre of fighting in the

2012 Homs offensive The 2012 Homs offensive was a Syrian Army offensive on the armed rebellion stronghold of Homs, within the scope of the Siege of Homs, beginning in early February 2012 and ending with the U.N. brokered cease fire on 14 April 2012. The offensiv ...

References

{{reflist Neighborhoods of Homs