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{{Short description|Village-turned neighbourhood in southern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Al-Masaniʽ
| official_name            =
| settlement_type          = [[Neighbourhood]]
| image_skyline            = Souq Haraj Riyadh, 2022.jpg
| caption                  =
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = Saudi Arabia
| subdivision_type2        = City
| subdivision_name2        = [[Riyadh]]
| native_name              = حي المصانع
| founder                  =
| p1                       =
| governing_body           = [[Al Shifa Sub-Municipality|Baladiyah Al Shifa]]
| subdivision_type1        = , 24.62173563571554, 46.71983582227682
| subdivision_name1        =
| demographics_type1       = Language
| demographics1_title1     = Official
| demographics1_info1      = [[Arabic]]
| coordinates              = {{Coord|24|34|34|N|46|44|2|E|type:city_region:SA|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map              = Saudi Arabia#Asia
| native_name_lang         = ar
| postal_code_type         = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code              =
| area_total_ha            =
| image_caption            = [[Souq Haraj Ibn Qasim|Souq Haraj]] in al-Masani, 2022
}}
'''Al-Masani''' ({{Langx|ar|المصانع|translit=al-maṣāniʿ|lit=industrial plants}}) is a historic neighborhood and a former town in southern [[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]], situated south of [[Manfuhah]] in the sub-municipality of [[Al Shifa Sub-Municipality|al-Shifa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=حي المصانع بالرياض يعج بالعمالة السائبة والحيوانات والطيور النافقة زرائب وأحواش الحيوانات والمواشي تحتاج لرقابة وعناية ونظام |url=https://www.al-jazirah.com/2002/20020809/th1.htm |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.al-jazirah.com}}</ref> The neighborhood traces its origins to an ancient agricultural village that served as a confluence of [[Wadi Hanifa]] and [[Wadi al-Batʼha]] and was known for its cultivation of palm groves in [[al-Yamama]] during [[pre-Islamic Arabia]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=NA |first=NA |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIiwCwAAQBAJ&dq=al+masani+riyadh&pg=PA114 |title=Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century |date=2015-12-22 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-81723-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=16 December 2011 |title=المصانع.. حينما تتحول الذكريات إلى مصانع عشوائية |url=https://www.alriyadh.com/692303 |access-date=4 January 2023 |website=www.alriyadh.com |language=ar}}</ref> It was also mentioned in [[Yaqut al-Hamawi|Yaqut al-Hamawi's]] 13th century work Kitāb Mu'jam al-Buldān ({{Translation|Dictionary of Countries}}).<ref>. St. J. B. Philby The Geographical Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Mar., 1920), pp. 161-185 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1781600] Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307052630/http://www.jstor.org/stable/1781600|date=07 مارس 2016}}</ref> It was incorporated into the burgeoning metropolis of [[Riyadh]] during the city's multiple phases of urbanization and expansion in the 1950s and 1970s.
Masani was also a site of conflict in 1837 when [[Faisal bin Turki Al Saud (1785–1865)|Imam Faisal's]] forces clashed with the Ottomans and the forces of its Riyadh-based vassal emirate during the former's attempt to regain control of the region.<ref>{{Cite book |last=NA |first=NA |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIiwCwAAQBAJ&dq=al+masani+riyadh&pg=PA114 |title=Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century |date=2015-12-22 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-81723-8 |language=en}}</ref>
== References ==
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[[Category:Neighbourhoods in Riyadh]]
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