Qal'at Saleh District (Arabic: قضاء قلعة صالح, romanized: Qalˤat Ṣāleḥ) is a district of the Maysan Governorate, Iraq.
Its district centre is Qal'at Saleh, a town of an estimated 40,000 inhabitants, located on the riverbanks of the Tigris, along the road that links Basra to Amarah, a mere 40 km away. Qalat Saleh's nearest towns are the district centres of Al-Majar Al Kabeer (20 km north-west), Al Kahlaa (17 km north), and Al Azeer (29 km south).
Mandaean Community
The town of Liṭlaṭa in the Qal'at Saleh District was home to a Mandaean bit manda (temple), which the British scholar E. S. Drower frequently visited.[1] Sheikh Negm bar Zahroon, a 20th-century Mandaean priest, spent most of his life in Liṭlaṭa.[2]
Notable Mandaeans born in Qal'at Saleh include the Mandaean priest Abdullah bar Sam and his son Abdul Jabbar Abdullah.[2]
References
- ^ Aldihisi, Sabah (2008). The story of creation in the Mandaean holy book in the Ginza Rba (PhD). University College London.
- ^ a b Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
