Rabad
Rabaḍ (Arabic: ربض, romanized: rabaḍ, lit. 'outskirts, suburb') refers to the suburbs of seventh- to eighth-century cities in Central Asia, including what is now the Turkistan Region in southern Kazakhstan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
This term, in the Andalusian Arabic form of ʼar-rabḍa, was borrowed into Spanish as arrabal/arrabalde.[1]
City layout
A typical qalʿat ("fortress") in Central Asia was based on a tripartite city model: citadel, shahristan (residential area inside the walls), and rabaḍ (suburb). This city model is valid not only for Central Asian city typology, but is also used to describe similar city types elsewhere in the Islamic world.[2][3]
See also
Look up ربض in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Rabat (disambiguation), Arabic word for 'fortified town' or 'suburb'
- Ribat, Arabic word for Early Muslim frontier fort, later caravansary and Sufi retreat
- Robat (disambiguation), Persian variant for 'ribat'
References
- Lipiński, Edward (1997). Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar (PDF). Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Vol. 80. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 131, 693. ISBN 90-6831-939-6. Retrieved 2 September 2022 – via Tbilisi State University website. (At Google Books: 2nd edition (2001), ISBN 9042908157.)
- Can, Mesut (2015). Orta Asya Kent Topoğrafyasına Dair Genel Kabuller Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme [... Central Asian urban topography] (PDF). IV. Turkey Graduate Studies Congress, 14-17 May 2015, Kütahya: Proceedings Book III (in Turkish). İstanbul. pp. 145–148. ISBN 978-605-84009-4-8. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- Bolelov, Sergey B. "Рабад [Rabad]". Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian). Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
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