جوانب من المكونات الثقافية لمنطقة عجلون في العهدين الأيوبي و المملوكي (1174-1517م)‎ : دراسة في الجغرافيا التاريخية

الملخص EN

Ajloun area included in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods the land which bounded by the Yarmouk River in the north, the zarqa Valley in the south, the Jordan River to the west, and the fringes of the desert to the east, and occupied an advanced administrative rank follow Damascus.

While Ajloun area received privileged position of the rulers of the Ayyubid and Mamluk, the mountain area of it (Ajloun Mount) received a more distinctive position.

They established huge facilities as Ajloun castle and the old mosque.

The Mamluk rulers increased their Attention for that Ajloun city reached, in their covenant, the top of cultural and scientific prosperity, the reasons of these rulers attention to Ajloun area were due to its natural and human rich.

This study aims to know the most important cultural components that made Ajloun the largest scientific centre to the east of the Jordan River during the period of the study, to highlight the cultural role of Ajloun district through 343 years, and to know the reasons behind it.

To reach these objectives, the researcher has followed the Historical Geography Methodology, and used the Vertical Treatment Approach, the study came up with several findings, the most important of which are : area’s popularity due to the large number of scientists, who are more than 150 scientists, mostly devoted in the field of jurisprudence and judiciary.