al-Ruṣāfa - الرصافة
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“[T]he name of a quarter of the city of Bag̲h̲dād [q.v.] founded soon after the caliph al-Manṣūr [q.v.] built his Round City.” 2
Names
- الرصافة1
- al-Ruṣāfa
Place Type
quarter
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 33.3430618° Long. 44.3377829°3
See Also
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 226, 228, 229.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Andrew Lookingbill and Ethan Russell (eds.), "https://goo.gl/maps/7JYaN266UmN6vV88A," Google Maps
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“al-Ruṣāfa - الرصافة .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5106.About this Entry
Entry Title: al-Ruṣāfa - الرصافة
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- Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
- Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
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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
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