Ash-Shaykh Saad
Ash-Shaykh Saad
الشيخ سعد | |
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Village | |
An 1886 drawing of the village of ash-Shaykh Saad | |
Ash-Shaykh Saad | |
| Coordinates: 32°50′9″N 36°2′6″E / 32.83583°N 36.03500°E | |
| Grid position | 247/249 PAL |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | Daraa |
| District | Izraa |
| Nahiyah | Nawa |
| Population (2004 census) | |
• Total | 3,373 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Ash-Shaykh Saad (Arabic: الشيخ سعد ash-Shaykh Saʿad; also Romanized Sheikh Saad), historically also called Karnaim and Dair Ayyub ("Monastery of Job"), is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located northwest of Daraa on the Jordan–Syria border. Nearby localities include Nawa, Jasim and al-Harrah to the north, Izraa and ash-Shaykh Miskin to the east, Tafas and Da'el to the southeast, and Adawan and Tasil to the west and Jalin to the southwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, ash-Shaykh Saad had a population of 3,373 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.