العنوان بلغة أخرى: |
Centrality of Makkah Almukarramah in the Islamic: World Spatial Analysis Using GIS |
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المصدر: | المجلة المصرية للتغير البيئي |
الناشر: | الجمعية المصرية للتغيرات البيئية |
المؤلف الرئيسي: | الغامدي، خالد بن عبدالرحمن (مؤلف) |
المؤلف الرئيسي (الإنجليزية): | Al-Ghamdi, Khalid Abdulrahman |
مؤلفين آخرين: | قربة، جهاد بن محمد (م. مشارك) |
المجلد/العدد: | مج8, ع2 |
محكمة: | نعم |
الدولة: |
مصر |
التاريخ الميلادي: |
2016
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الشهر: | أكتوبر |
الصفحات: | 23 - 50 |
ISSN: |
2090-228X |
رقم MD: | 1472222 |
نوع المحتوى: | بحوث ومقالات |
اللغة: | العربية |
قواعد المعلومات: | HumanIndex |
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كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية: |
GIS | Muslim Word | City | ge-ographyg of City | Distance | Euclidian | Arcdistance | Vincenty | Distribution | Makkah Almukarramah | Centrality
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رابط المحتوى: |
المستخلص: |
Many studies have been published about the location of Makkah Almukarramah. Those studies were made by researchers from specialties other than geography. They all depended on different traditional and Islamic references. Geographers should have present some work on this important issue for it is related Makkah the Islamic capital and the Qiblah for Muslims. Muslims numbers increased to more than one and a half milliard persons. The criterion adopted in the present study for labeling a state as a" Muslim State " is when it is registered as a member of the existing " Congress of Islamic States ". The authors of the present study have published a detailed study about the spatial relationship between Makkah Almukarramah and the cities sized no less than half million persons using GIS technology. They took into consideration the most important variables like population sizes and the distances from Makkah to all the selected cities. That study proved Makkah is the geographic core of human settlements represented by the selected cities. Geographic studies when taking location centrality analysis should restrict to one variable, but should add the analysis of the rest of the spatial analysis as we go in consequence of the positional study to show the fact that came out from spatial geomathmatical analysis through GIS. The question, here, is: how is the spatial relationship between Makkah and each of the selected cities of the Muslim world? Could the centrality of Makkah be proved here as proved in the previous study for the whole world? In the present study 1972 cities within the Muslim world with 50000 person from 56 Muslim states perfectly poisoned on maps. The centrality of Makkah and the systematic arrangement of cities around it is again examined without looking to the results of the previous study. Added to that the present study tried to inspect the reality of the centrality of the location of Makkah and the importance of that position and to explain the geographic urban characteristics results. Using GIS restored almost perfect results as it enabled the comprehensive geomatic cartographic analysis and that is one of the goals targeted in this study. |
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ISSN: |
2090-228X |