# Qaṭar
## English
### Proper noun

Qaṭar
* Rare form of Qatar.
** 1988, Ahmad Mustafa Abu-Hakima, History of Eastern Arabia, 1750-1800: The Rise and Development of Bahrain, Kuwait and Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, London: Arthur Probsthain, →ISBN, page 115:[…] were joined there as quickly as possible, by the ‘Utūb of Zubāra and Ruwais, and by contingents from various tribes of Qaṭar.
** 1997, Robert G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam; 13), Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., published 2001, →ISBN:By alternately entreating and threatening the Christians of Qaṭar and visiting Simeon personally, Isho’yahb managed to heal the division and achieve a secure arrangement, giving India and Qaṭar—formerly under the control of Fars—their own metropolitans.
** 2010, Joel T. Walker, “Ascetic Literacy: Books and Readers in East-Syrian Monastic Tradition”, in Henning Börm, Josef Wiesehöfer, editors, Commutatio et Contentio: Studies in the Late Roman, Sasanian, and Early Islamic Near East, Wellem Verlag, →ISBN, page 321:Scattered references in his treatises link Simon to the monasteries of Kashkar (south of Babylon) and Khuzistan (SW Iran) in the third quarter of the seventh century, placing him in the same general circles as Isaac of Nineveh and Dadisho of Qaṭar.
** 2012, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1224, column 1:Īšō‘dad of Qaṭar
** 2013, Michael Cook, “Why Incline to the Left in Prayer? Sectarianism, Dialectic, and Archaeology in Imāmī Shīʿism”, in Michael Cook, Najam Haider, Intisar Rabb, Asma Sayeed, editors, Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi (Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part II (Shīʿī Tradition):What then if he is located not seven or eight miles from the boundary of the sanctuary, but rather seven or eight hundred miles away in Qaṭar? Then the appropriate inclination to the left would be less than a fifth of one degree—far too little for a normal person without scientific instruments to be aware of. Kūfa is about the same distance from Mecca as Qaṭar, and thus the tradition does not work in these terms either.
** 2017, Carolyn Baugh, Minor Marriage in Early Islamic Law (Studies in Islamic Law and Society; 41), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 161:As noted, the former Chief of the Sharīʿa Courts and Religious Issues of the nation of Qaṭar has claimed to rely upon the rulings of Ibn al-Mundhir as a legal resource.
** 2020, Christine Helms, The Cohesion of Saudi Arabia (RLE Saudi Arabia): Evolution of Political Identity (Routledge Library Editions: Saudi Arabia; 2), Routledge, →ISBN:The towns and villages of the oases of al-Qaṭīf and al-Aḥsā were highly heterogeneous, having received immigrants from many neighbouring lands. They included smaller factions of tribes—‘Awāzim and Rashā’ida centred mainly in Kuwait; Dawāsir, Sahūl, Muṭair, Subai‘, ‘Utaiba and Qaḥṭān from Najd; and Manāṣīr from areas south of Qaṭar—who entered al-Aḥsā during their seasonal migrations to supplement their pastoralism or to escape drought conditions.
** 2020, Mohammad Morsy Abdullah, The United Arab Emirates: A Modern History (Routledge Library Editions: The Gulf; 15), Routledge, →ISBN:The oil concession in Qaṭar precipitated urgent discussion in London of the need to determine the boundaries of this shaikhdom and British responsibility for protecting it against any aggression from Ibn Sa‘ūd.