قصير عمرة

A desert palace about fifty miles east of Amman. The book says that Musil discovered it in 1898 CE, and researchers attribute it to the caliph al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. ¹

It has two parts: a reception hall covered by three half-cylindrical vaults, containing the niche of the throne, and a hot bath of three rooms. ²

The book says that the figures of six people on its walls were famous as representing the "enemies of Islam". Researchers, however, see them as representing the kings of the neighbouring powers: the Caesar of Rome, Roderic king of the Visigoths, Khosrow, the Negus, the king of China and the king of the Turks. ³

This identification is the view of the researchers, as the book presents it.