For the lost place mentioned in the Quran, see Iram of the Pillars.
Legendary lost city in the Arabian desert
A satellite photograph of southern Arabia showing suspected sites of a lost city.
Atlantis of the Sands refers to a legendary lost place in the southern deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, known as Ūbār/Awbār (أوبار) or Wabār/Wubār (وبار) in Arabic, thought to have been destroyed by a natural disaster or as a punishment by God.
The English name is commonly attributed to T. E. Lawrence in the 21st century, but it never appears in Lawrence's published works, and neither Bertram Thomas who made "Atlantis of the Sands" public (and was probably the real coiner of this term)[1][2][3] nor Ranulph Fiennes and Nicholas Clapp who made this term popular[4][5] have ever attributed this term to Lawrence.
Ubar is often said to be mentioned in the Quran and One Thousand and One Nights, but that is not the case. The misconception is due to the equation of Ubar with Iram by Nicholas Clapp, but such equation is not generally accepted by scholars.[6][7]
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^Webb, Peter (1 June 2019), "Iram", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Brill, retrieved 22 January 2024
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