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دير الجماجم (monastery): monastery close to the Euphrates where several major battles were fought; most famously perhaps in 701 CE, between Umayyad army led by al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf against the mostly Iraqi followers of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. al-Ashʿath
دير الزعفران (monastery): A monastery outside of Mardin and the seat of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate from 1293 CE until after World War I.
دير سرجس وبكس (monastery): A monastery in Ṭīzanābādh betweena al-Kufa and al-Qadisiyya in southern Iraq
دير سمعان (monastery): A monastery near Damascus, in which `Umar b. `Abd al-`Aziz was reportedly buried
دير العاقول (monastery): A monastery fifteen farsakhs from Baghdad, between al-Mada'in and al-Nu'maniyya