Al-Masaniʽ () is a historic neighborhood and a former town in southern
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, situated south of
Manfuhah
Manfuha ( ar, منفوحة) is an ancient village and a historical neighborhood in southern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Established on the edge of the narrow, fertile valley known as Wadi Hanifa, Manfuha was until the mid-20th century considered a tw ...
in the sub-municipality of
al-Shifa. The neighborhood traces its origins to an ancient agricultural village that served as a confluence of
Wadi Hanifa and
Wadi al-Batʼha
Wadi al-Batʼha (), historically known as Wadi al-Wutar (), is an ancient river valley under rehabilitation in the Najd region of Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. The valley once descended from Shiʿb Abu Rufia, and traversed from northwest to sou ...
and was known for its cultivation of palm groves in
al-Yamama
Al-Yamama ( ar, اليَمامَة, al-Yamāma) is a historical region in the southeastern Najd in modern-day Saudi Arabia, or sometimes more specifically, the now-extinct ancient village of Jaww al-Yamamah, near al-Kharj, after which the rest ...
during
pre-Islamic Arabia. It was also mentioned in
Yaqut al-Hamawi's 13th century work Kitāb Mu'jam al-Buldān (). It was incorporated into the burgeoning metropolis of
Riyadh during the city's multiple phases of urbanization and expansion in the 1950s and 1970s.
Masani was also a site of conflict in 1837 when
Imam Faisal's forces clashed with the Ottomans and the forces of its Riyadh-based vassal emirate during the former's attempt to regain control of the region.
References
Neighbourhoods in Riyadh
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