The Jordanian town of Karak is located at the centre of a fertile plateau (Arḍ al-Karak) east of the Dead Sea, approximately 170 kilometres south of Amman. Karak is now the administrative capital of a governorate (liwāʾ). The old town and the castle are surrounded by steep valleys on the east, north, and west and by the hill of Umm al-Thalj on the south. Karak rose to greatest prominence in Middle Eastern political life between the sixth/twelfth and early ninth/fifteenth centuries. This is explained partly by
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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