Qal'at Saleh District

District in Maysan Governorate, Iraq

Qal'at Saleh District قضاء قلعة صالح
District
Coordinates: 31°37′53.223″N 47°16′47.136″E / 31.63145083°N 47.27976000°E / 31.63145083; 47.27976000
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Maysan Governorate
Seat	Qal'at Saleh
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)

Qal'at Saleh District (Arabic: قضاء قلعة صالح) 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 Qal'at Saleh District was the site of a Mandaean bit manda (temple) that the British scholar E. S. Drower often visited.^[1] Sheikh Negm bar Zahroon, a 20th-century Mandaean priest, lived in Liṭlaṭa for most of his life.^[2]

Notable Mandaeans who were 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.