“…The plan of Installation 1 is typical of the ‘modular’ architecture of early Islamic sites in ‘peripheral regions’ (Whitcomb, : 27), and similar structures are known in southern ‘Araba, for example at Be'er Ora (Yisrael, : 126, fig. 163) and Eilat (Rapuano, : 130, plan 1), and in the southern Jordanian Hisma in Wadi Shira (al‐Bqā‘īn, Corbett, & Khamis, : 96–106). At these sites, modular rooms are found both individually and as part of linear units, but none of these larger, linear complexes were found at Khirbat al‐Mana‘iyya.…”