Qal'at Mudawwara

Qal'at Mudawara, also Qal'at al-Mudawwara or Jagiman Castle,[clarification needed][citation needed] is a desert fort located near the Jordanian village of Al-Mudawara, 350 km south of Amman and 15 km from the Jordanian-Saudi border.

[1] The first construction of this castle was during the period of the Arab prince Salama bin Fawaz bin Rashid Al-Mufarrajah Lami al-Ta’i, the leader of the Arab tribes in the region that is now Jordan, in the year 1495, i.e. the late Mamluk rule of southern Bilad al-Sham.

[3] There was no mention of the fort in the sources until the Ottomans rebuilt it[clarification needed] during their period of rule, and Abdullah Pasha guided me[dubious – discuss] to the governor of Damascus[4](AH 1142-1145 / AD 1730-1733).

[dubious – discuss][5] The walls are built of two types of stones, in which the upper parts differ from the lower parts, which reflects at least two periods in which the reconstruction[dubious – discuss] was made, perhaps they are the difference between the first construction of the era of the Gezivan[who?]

The central courtyard is surrounded by two-storey wings, each consisting of nine rooms, covered with barrel vaults.