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People are dressed in what's known as Iram clothing that really symbolizes purity and humility of pilgrims as they perform the Hajj.
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The team garnered international headlines in 1992, after announcing the discovery of Ubar, which scholars say is mentioned in the Quran as "the many-towered city of Iram whose like has not been built in the entire land."
Hollywood Legal Rainmaker Helped Discover Long-Lost Arabian City of Ubar 2009
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But Ibn Khaldun declares that commentators have embroidered the passage; Iram being the name of a powerful clan of the ancient
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I shall return to this subject in The City of Iram (Night cclxxvi.) and The City of Brass (dlxvii.).
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“I wonder to which of the Kings this place pertaineth, or is it Many – Columned Iram whereof they tell, for who among mortals can avail to the like of this?”
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He opened them and found himself in a garden, which was none other than the garden of Iram; and she showed him the pavilion and said, “O Sayf al-Muluk, enter therein!”
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He also notes that both Iram and Ubar were destroyed, according to myth, and that it's uncertain whether the ancient accounts refer to the same place.
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So King Asim bade summon all the merchants in the city and strangers and seacaptains and, as each came, enquired of him anent the city of Babel and its peninsula391 and the garden of Iram; but none of them knew these places nor could any give him tidings thereof.
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The Koran describes how the earth swallowed up a sumptuous but decadent "city of towers" called Iram.
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Faithful, this is ‘Iram with pillars decked and dight, the like of which was never made in the lands, ’169 and the builder was
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