Islamic placenames in the United States

[bugo]

What are some Islamic placenames in the US? I would guess there are some near Dearborn, Michigan.

[Pete from Boston]

Salem, Mass.

What's an Islamic name, by the way?  Do you mean Arabic names, or places referencing people/places/ideas in the Koran and Islamic traditions?

Salem/Salaam/Shalom is all the same word said by different people.  Also a shirt form of Jerusalem, one of the holiest places in Islam.

You could say Mt. Abraham, VT.  Islam includes and builds off the other "Abrahamic" religions, and thus many of the countless "biblical" place names should count.  Take your pick of the thousands. 

[kurumi]

These come to mind:
Alhambra, CA
Medina, pick your state

Oh wait wait WAIT A MINUTE it's not just cities but states!
Al Abama or Allah Bama
Caliph Ornia
[72] Virginia

[NE2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca_%28disambiguation%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagdad,_Florida

--removed link to non-existent article --SSO

[DandyDan]

Considering Spain used to be a Muslim country, there's probably a vast number of such places in the parts of the US that used to be Mexico.

[roadman65]

Could Alexandria, VA and Alexandria, LA both be considered Muslim names being that one city in Egypt has that name?

[Thing 342]

Could Alexandria, VA and Alexandria, LA both be considered Muslim names being that one city in Egypt has that name?

No, as they're named after Alexander the Great, who was Greek (technically Macedonian).

[roadman65]

Could Alexandria, VA and Alexandria, LA both be considered Muslim names being that one city in Egypt has that name?

No, as they're named after Alexander the Great, who was Greek.

I kind of figured that one.  I just wanted to put a little humor into it.  However, I would not doubt, though, that someone out there would think what I suggested.  Maybe not here on this forum, but somewhere in this nation or world.

[Zeffy]

I'm pretty sure Memphis, Tennessee was named for the city of Memphis in Egypt.

[Thing 342]

I'm pretty sure Memphis, Tennessee was named for the city of Memphis in Egypt.

Also not technically Islamic. Memphis was mostly abandoned by the time Islam came around (7th Century AD).

Cairo, Illinois (namesake founded 10th Century AD) is an example.

[mapman1071]

Baghdad, AZ
Baghdad, CA

[hbelkins]

Arab, Alabama. 

[J N Winkler]

Google Maps reports that the US has about ten towns or CDPs named after Damascus.  The name itself, however, is attested as far back as the reign of Thutmose III (ca. 1400 BC), and is thought to be pre-Semitic in origin.

There is also an Aleppo in Pennsylvania and a St. Mary Aleppo in Kansas.  There are probably a great many more Bereas, however (Berea is the Greek/Roman name for Aleppo, itself an Italianization and then Anglicization of Halab, the Arabic name, which itself descends from Aramaic).

[xcellntbuy]

Delhi, NY
Cairo, NY
Cairo, IL

[Brandon]

Mohamet, IL

Mohamet is an older western term for Mohammad.

[Pete from Boston]

 Gibraltar, PA, WI, MI, CA

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar :

The name Gibraltar is the Spanish derivation of the Arabic name Jabal Ṭāriq (جبل طارق), meaning "Mountain of Tariq". It refers to the Rock of Gibraltar, which was named after the Umayyad general Tariq ibn-Ziyad who led the initial incursion into Iberia in advance of the main Umayyad force in 711 under the command of Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I.

[NE2]

Delhi, NY

what

[tidecat]

Bagdad, KY

[DandyDan]

Delhi, NY
Cairo, NY
Cairo, IL

Also, Cairo, NE

[bugo]

What's an Islamic name, by the way?  Do you mean Arabic names, or places referencing people/places/ideas in the Koran and Islamic traditions?

Arabic, Farsi...any of the languages spoken in majority Muslim countries, and especially placenames that are inspired by Islam in one way or the other.

[Pete from Boston]

What's an Islamic name, by the way?  Do you mean Arabic names, or places referencing people/places/ideas in the Koran and Islamic traditions?

Arabic, Farsi...any of the languages spoken in majority Muslim countries, and especially placenames that are inspired by Islam in one way or the other.

Java, Texas, meets the first part of this definition. 

[cpzilliacus]

Syria, Madison County, Virginia?

[roadman65]

Palestine, TX.

Even though not pronounced the same way, some Muslim's believed that their god was punishing America by letting the Space Shuttle Columbia perish in the sky above the Texas city with the same name as the nation that should be where Israel is today.

[Pete from Boston]

Getting to heart of the problem with the question, Palestine is a millennia-old name for that region, not for a specific country, that predates the existence of Islam by 1000 years or more. 

[Grzrd]

What's an Islamic name, by the way?  Do you mean Arabic names, or places referencing people/places/ideas in the Koran and Islamic traditions?

... especially placenames that are inspired by Islam in one way or the other.

[72] Virginia

Similarly, Vestal, Virginia.  "Almost Heaven, Vestal, Virginia"?

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