Sahab is a city in the Kingdom of Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

, south east of the capital Amman

Amman

Amman is the capital of Jordan. It is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The Greater Amman area has a population of 2,842,629 as of 2010. The population of Amman is expected to jump from 2.8 million to almost...

. Sahab is well-known for its Industrial Estate, the Islamic Cemetery, and Kahf of Raqeem site mentioned in the Qur'an

Qur'an

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 (Surat al-Kahf).
The earliest inhabitants in Sahab have immigrated mostly from Egypt

Egypt

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 during the era of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 in the 1850s. Two major clans  first inhabited the city: zyood (الزيود), and maharmah (المحارمة). a minority of migrant Egyptian

Egyptians

Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

 workforce live and work in the area. Recently a Chinese

China

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 workforce started settling in the area working in textile factories in the industrial estate.

Famous places in Sahab

• Industrial City of Sahab
  Industrial City of Sahab
  Also refers to Amman Industrial Estate, and King Abdullah Industrial City.It is located within the city of Sahab. Its total area comprises 2.5 million square meters. By mid 1998, the Industrial City of Sahab accommodated 354 medium and small industries employing more than 13,700 workers...
  
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• al-Raqaim . This place is mentioned in the holy book of Qur'an. The legned of "Ahlul-Kahf" or the people of the cave comes in a Surah with the same name. It tells a story about a number of young men who took refuge in a cave place called (Al-Raqaim) near Sahab, after they fled their places of residence fearing the worse would come after embracing and converting to a new religion. After they slept in the cave for 309 years, God sent them awake and their cave was discovered by the people of the city who were believers after all that time.
• Al-Tajamouat Industrial City.
• Islamic cemetery.
• Livestock Market & Auction.
• Totanjy hospital.
• Al-Shaheed Square

External links

• http://www.sahabjo.com
• Sahab City forums