al-Raḥba - الرحبة
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“[A] town on the right bank of
the Euphrates, the modern al-Miyādīn.” 4
Names
- الرحبة3
- الميادين
- al-Miyādīn
- al-Raḥba
- Mayadin
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 35.02089° Long. 40.45346°5
Descriptions
“ثم وصلت إلى مدينة الرّحبة، وهي التي تنسب إلى مالك بن طوق. ومدينة الرحبة أحسن بلاد العراق، وأول بلاد الشام. ثم سافرنا منها إلى السّخنة.” 6
“ثم يمتد الفرات على ديار العرب حتى ينتهي الى الرقة وقرقيسيا
والرحبة والدالية وعانة والحديثة وهيت والانبارالى الكوفة” 1
A town near al-Qādisīya in Irāq.
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Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
- 2 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 663.
- 3 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 210.
- 4 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 5 Deutsches Archäologisches Institute, "https://gazetteer.dainst.org/app/#!/show/2281715," iDAI.gazetteer
- 6 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 663.
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Additional Credit:
- Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
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