| Al-Masaniʽ | |
| Settlement Type: | Neighbourhood |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Saudi Arabia |
| Subdivision Type2: | City |
| Subdivision Name2: | Riyadh |
| Native Name: | حي المصانع |
| Governing Body: | Baladiyah Al Shifa |
| Subdivision Type1: | , 24.62173563571554, 46.71983582227682 |
| Demographics Type1: | Language |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Arabic |
| Pushpin Map: | Saudi Arabia#Asia |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
Al-Masaniʽ is a historic neighborhood in southern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, situated south of Manfuhah in the sub-municipality of al-Shifa.[1] 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.[2] [3] It was also mentioned in Yaqut al-Hamawi's 13th century work Kitāb Mu'jam al-Buldān .[4] 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 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.[5]