Crossword-Solution: HAURAN 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

His true name was Abou Moussah Djafar, to which was added Al Soft, or "The Wise," and he was born at Hauran, in Mesopotamia.

Herr Schuhmacher has lately noted in the Hauran sundry Arab traditions of Job; the village Nawá, where he lived; the Hammam 'Ayyúb, where he washed his leprous skin; the Dayr Ayyúb, a monastery said to date from the third century; and the Makan Ayyub at Al-Markáz, where the semi-mythical patriarch and his wife are buried.

During these travels Burton and Drake made some valuable discoveries and saw many extraordinary peoples, though none more extraordinary than the lazy and filthy Troglodytes of the Hauran, [238] who shared the pre-historic caves with their cows and sheep, and fed on mallows just as their forefathers are represented as having done in the vivid thirtieth chapter of Job, [239] and in the pages of Agatharchides.

The ride to Mezarib, through Bashan, especially that part of it now known as the Hauran, is one of more than ordinary interest.

South of the Lejah are the Hauran Mountains, now occupied by the Druses, a people of a peculiar religious faith--a faith which is a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, and Zoroastrian elements.