Rabad
Rabaḍ ({{langx|ar|ربض|rabaḍ|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.{{cite thesis |last=Sobti |first=Manu |date=August 2005 |title=Urban Metamorphosis and Change in Central Asian Cities After the Arab Invasions |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/304999991 |degree=PhD |publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology |access-date=22 June 2023 |id={{ProQuest|304999991}} }}
This term, in the Andalusī Arabic form of ar-rabāḍ, was borrowed into Spanish as arrabal and into Portuguese as arrabalde.{{cite book |last= Lipiński |first= Edward |author-link= Edward Lipiński (orientalist) |title= Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar |year= 1997 |pages= 131, 693 |publisher=Peeters Publishers |location= Leuven |series= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta'' |volume= 80 |isbn= 90-6831-939-6 |via=Tbilisi State University website |url= https://e-learning.tsu.ge/pluginfile.php/5865/mod_resource/content/0/Lipinski_-_Semitic_Languages._Outline_of_a_Comparative_Grammar.pdf |access-date=2 September 2022}} (At Google Books: [https://books.google.com/books?id=IiXVqyEkPKcC 2nd edition] (2001), {{ISBN|9042908157}}.)
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 Muslim world.{{Cite book|last=Can|first=Mesut|chapter=Orta Asya Kent Topoğrafyasına Dair Genel Kabuller Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme [... Central Asian urban topography]|title=IV. Turkey Graduate Studies Congress, 14-17 May 2015, Kütahya: Proceedings Book III|year=2015 |location=İstanbul|pages=145–148|lang=tr|isbn=978-605-84009-4-8|url=http://tlck.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/3cilt-4tlck2015.pdf#page=144|access-date=2 May 2021}}{{cite encyclopedia |last= Bolelov |first= Sergey B. |title= Рабад [Rabad] |encyclopedia=Great Russian Encyclopedia |publisher=Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation |lang= ru |url= https://bigenc.ru/archeology/text/3487078 |access-date= 2 May 2021}}
See also
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{{Wiktionary|ربض}}
- Rabat (disambiguation), Arabic word for 'fortified town' or 'suburb'
- Rábade, town in Galicia, Spain
- Ribat, Arabic word for Early Muslim frontier fort, later caravansary and Sufi retreat
- Robat (disambiguation), Persian variant for 'ribat'
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- RABaD (disambiguation), Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Abraham Ben David. See page for the most famous 3 by this name.