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Fuqaha, Libya

Coordinates: 27°50′N 16°21′E / 27.833°N 16.350°E / 27.833; 16.350
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Fuqaha
الفقهاء
Town
Fuqaha is located in Libya
Fuqaha
Fuqaha
Location in Libya
Coordinates: 27°50′N 16°21′E / 27.833°N 16.350°E / 27.833; 16.350
Country Libya
RegionFezzan
DistrictJufra
Elevation
2,605 ft (794 m)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)

Fuqaha or El-Foqaha (Arabic: الفقهاء) is a spring-fed town in central Libya, 200 km by road south of Sokna, on the western edge of the great central Haruj volcano and lava field. It is an isolated Berber-speaking locale, and it shares this identity with the oasis of Sokna to its north.

Fuqaha was one of the last holdouts of loyalists in the 2011 Libyan civil war.