Zabīd - زبيد
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“[A] town in the Tihāma [q.v.] coastal plain of Yemen, at about 25 km/15 miles from the Red Sea, in a region of fertile agricultural lands irrigated by two major wādīs , Zabīd to the south and Rimaʿ to the north.” 2
Names
- زبيد1
- Zabīd
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 14.1951° Long. 43.31518°3
Descriptions
“ثمّ رحلنا إلى مرسى الحادث ولم ننزل به، ثم إلى مرسى الأبواب، ثم إلى مدينة زبيد، مدينة عظيمة باليمن بينها وبين صنعاء أربعون فرسخا، وليس باليمن بعد صنعاء أكبر منها، ولا أغنى من أهلها” 4
“وخرجت لزيارة قبر هذا الرجل الصالح، وهو بقرية يقال لها: غسانة خارج زبيد.” 5
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 256, 257.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Deutsches Archäologisches Institute, "http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2043303," iDAI.gazetteer
- 4 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 256.
- 5 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 257.
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“Zabīd - زبيد .” 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/5528.About this Entry
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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 Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta 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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