Midian (; ),
Madyan , or
Madiam is a geographical place and the
Midianites a people mentioned in the
Torah and in the
Qur'an. Scholars generally consider it to have been located in the "northwest
Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the
Gulf of Aqaba on the
Red Sea", and have long associated it with the region of
Modiana reported in that same area by
Ptolemy.