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.[1]

This term, in the Andalusī Arabic form of ar-rabāḍ, was borrowed into Spanish as arrabal and into Portuguese as arrabalde.[2]

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.[3][4]

See also
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References
  1. Sobti, Manu (August 2005). Urban Metamorphosis and Change in Central Asian Cities After the Arab Invasions (PhD thesis). Georgia Institute of Technology. ProQuest 304999991. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  2. 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.)
  3. Can, Mesut (2015). Orta Asya Kent Topoğrafyasına Dair Genel Kabuller Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme [... Central Asian urban topography] (PDF). pp. 145–148. ISBN 978-605-84009-4-8. Retrieved 2 May 2021. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. 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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